re: #70 Lidane

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.

Also, the world had become smaller. Our children don’t have to work, but their clothing, toys, and even potty training Ipads are made by kids elsewhere who do have to work. We’ve just outsourced the jobs to other people’s kids.