Things like child labor laws and compulsory schooling are the doing of people that would have you under their control.
What do you do in public schools? Go where you're supposed to go when a bell rings. Go to the next place when the bell rings. Go eat lunch when the bell rings. Start when the bell rings. Stop when the bell rings.
By the time you become "old enough" to work you're very well trained, all they have to do is ring a bell.
This isn't to say that some good things, like industrial safety standards, didn't come out of this same era, but this social change is relatively recent dating only back to the tail end of the industrial revolution. So, in the grand scheme of the history of humanity, it happened about 10 minutes ago and you think it's the natural way for us to be.
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Things like child labor laws and compulsory schooling are the doing of people that would have you under their control.
What do you do in public schools? Go where you're supposed to go when a bell rings. Go to the next place when the bell rings. Go eat lunch when the bell rings. Start when the bell rings. Stop when the bell rings.
By the time you become "old enough" to work you're very well trained, all they have to do is ring a bell.
This isn't to say that some good things, like industrial safety standards, didn't come out of this same era, but this social change is relatively recent dating only back to the tail end of the industrial revolution. So, in the grand scheme of the history of humanity, it happened about 10 minutes ago and you think it's the natural way for us to be.