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red-iron-pineyesterday at 9:22 PM1 replyview on HN

want to believe it? mon ami have you looked at any labor history?

they used to send 9 year olds to the mines. mortality rates were as high as 50% before they turned 20.

why do you think the AI robber barons are any nicer? it is painfully obvious they're not. and all of this is set to a backdrop of global ecological collapse.


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lanfeust6today at 1:48 AM

> they used to send 9 year olds to the mines

Yeah, at the advent of the industrial revolution. And prior to that 80% of people had to work the land, with no ammonia, just horses and manure.

Labor conditions from over a century ago, before the laws were written, have no bearing on whether wealthy people would try their best to kill you "just because". That's nonsensical.

"Nice" has nothing to do with it.