The Doubter's Companion
“They don’t have to go to school. They sometimes earn as much as two or three dollars every day and are often allowed to work as much as seven days a week. What wonderful pocket-money to buy toys or empty cardboard cartons, which make ideal roofs for the family home. In most factories there are also games of risk to play—not falling into machinery, not getting your fingers squashed. What with the doors locked shut and the solid, windowless walls, it’s snug and warm inside, particularly in the ho...t season.
A lot of paternalistic well-to-do adults, usually foreigners, would like to stop children working in factories. That’s because these lazy grown-ups can’t compete. They’re afraid of the global economy. They keep their own children locked up in schools. It’s far more fun to be allowed to play in a factory. See: LAGOS.
FACTSTools of authority.
Facts are supposed to make truth out of a proposition. They are the proof. The trouble is that there are enough facts around to prove most things.MoreLess
A lot of paternalistic well-to-do adults, usually foreigners, would like to stop children working in factories. That’s because these lazy grown-ups can’t compete. They’re afraid of the global economy. They keep their own children locked up in schools. It’s far more fun to be allowed to play in a factory. See: LAGOS.
FACTSTools of authority.
Facts are supposed to make truth out of a proposition. They are the proof. The trouble is that there are enough facts around to prove most things.MoreLess
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