re: #68 Killgore Trout

It’s interesting to think about these aspects of our cultural history. Back then kids worked in mines, today they can affordably potty train with an iPad.

A century of technological evolution will do that.

Kids don’t work in mines here in the States because they don’t have to. Aside from compulsory education which mandates that they spend time in school, we’ve sufficiently advanced enough compared to the way things were back then that we don’t require an 8 year old’s wages from the mines in order to survive.