Jarolleon
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Its decline preceded the ban because mechanisation was already making that kind of grunt work done by children less relevant, as it had done to slaves in the industrial North before, keep in mind that it was basically universal before then. Adam Smith wrote that in the 18th century Thirteen Colonies men would seek out widows with children so that they could profit from putting the kids to work, and considered it a good sign (the alternative was labour being so cheap that stepchildren weren't worth feeding).You do realize child labor was legal all throughout the Gilded Age, right? Also, the fastest tech progress in human history came long after the Gilded Age, during the World Wars and the Cold War. We invented nuclear power and got all the way to the moon. It makes everything the Gilded Age shat out look like a small community college fair by comparison.
Modern sanitation came about after a lot of trial and error. And if the people on charge during the Gilded Age had their way, we wouldn't care about it.
Also the Haber Process alone (I consider the Gilded Age and Europe's Belle Epoque the same era because the US and Europe were heavily interconnected) is far more impactful than nukes and rockets, it's an infinite fertilizer glitch that solved peacetime food scarcity. There's also planes, oil refining, automobiles, electric lights, refrigeration, the video camera, sound recording, the tractor and combine, the telephone, the bicycle, radioactivity, the Bohr/Rutherford model of the atom, diesel ships, and many more that I'm forgetting.
More on topic, is anyone else constantly getting Fredda videos recommended despite never watching them?
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