cause according to [this article](https://www.historycrunch.com/child-labor-in-the-industrial-revolution.html#/) children as young as 4 years old used to be employed, but that just seems incredibly counter productive. most 4 year olds i know cant even tie their shoes. cause once a child can function without supervision without dying (so 9-12) i can see why from their fucked point of view they would use child labor, but i feel like the resources needed to train and keep the children alive would far outweigh the reward for basically free labor
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It’s not like they were employing them as doctors or something requiring years of training. It was simple tasks like, “Stick your arm inside of this machine and pull out the thing that is stuck.” If the machine then crushed the kid, well, just get another one. It’s not like the business owner gave a fuck and lack of safety laws meant that they hadn’t done anything legally wrong.
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