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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
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As cruel-sounding as it is, child labor laws lowered the value of children for low-income families. For most of history, children were put to work to help the family, and was in fact one of the ***primary*** reasons why people had kids. The boomers changed everything by overvaluing kids as royalty and have subsequently made kids too expensive. Childcare and education is a *lucrative* business for the ruling class to indoctrinate children while sucking middle and lower class dry. *Not* treating children as the end-all-be-all is taboo and the idea of putting them to work would considered cruel by most people in today's world.

All of this despite work environments being *incredibly* safe and *highly* sanitized in first world countries. Also, with the rise of anxiety and depression, exposing children and teens would help them exponentially in their personal development.  It's utterly bizarre how much special treatment kids and teens receive while shielding them from the "real" world (which is incredibly safe in first world countries).
gpt
&gt;shielding them from the "real" world

Correct me if I am wrong, but I think most researches find that adults who never had to face traumatic events when young (even traumas "as small as" being bullied once at school) are better adjusted in society and life? We like to say that things that don't kill us make us stronger, but we know today that something that hurts you in fact creates weaknesses (as much for the brain as for the rest of the body). I like Nietzsche a lot but he was completely wrong on that one

There is also most probably no rise of anxiety and depression whatsoever compared to before: we just lowered the treshold to diagnose these disorders just like we did with every other psychiatric and neurological disorders, plus the fact that they are over-mediatized