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> Are you also sure that some of those child laborers are not eager to work?

The children yearn for the mines

If the alternative is poverty, this is likely correct.

It's a difficult problem to solve, because people aren't very motivated to improve the economic situation in foreign countries.

I really need upvotes with themes sometimes. /s

Are you comparing a skittles factory to an underground mine?

The phrase is a satirical meme used to sarcastically comment on the ongoing tendencies to ease child labour restrictions and crontrols in certain parts of the US.

Edit: those downvoting me, please consider that this is not necessarily the opinion I hold, I am not from the US and I might not have enough background information to even judge this. What I wrore above is what a 5 minutes on research on that phrase brought up.

No, they're mocking the notion that children actually want to be economically exploited. The specific phrase has some history in related online discourse.

Working in a factory is incredibly dangerous work and many children get permanently disabled or are killed. Here are more articles in this series:

1) https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/18/magazine/child-labor-dang... 2) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/14/us/roofing-ch...

No doubt it can be dangerous. But invoking “mines” is unnecessarily inflammatory.

This is an incredibly common phrase and you can view this as a learning opportunity.

If its use is causing emotions in you, then what a good starting point in a journey of self discovery? Why do you think it makes you feel so inflamed?

Did you see emotion in my question, or in my use of the word "inflammatory"? If so, perhaps you should determine what is causing you to project emotion in this way.

Inflammatory means it stirs emotions up in people. I'm glad you're aware of your emotions, but I'm curious, why did it do that for you?

What dictionary are you citing? My dictionary says: arousing or intended to arouse angry or violent feelings.

But you didn't answer my question, so I'll pass on answering yours (especially because it misstates what I said). Good day, strange stranger!

So either it stirred within you emotions, or you're discrediting it because you're assuming that it does in others. I'm curious which of those it is. Is it the latter? Why would you care so much what others feel? What sort of violence would it imply?

So many unanswered questions. You have a fascinating mind gnicholas.

It's a freaking meme

https://old.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/xskbuh/th...

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