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Re:Your iPhone Was Built with Child Labor by cassianoleal on Friday April 14, 2023 @05:59AM (#35567550)
> capitalism reducing child labor over time due to it’s dependence on an educated workforce.

Dependence on an educated workforce is orthogonal to the economic system. Rather it's a corollary of scientific and technological advancement.

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Re:Your iPhone Was Built with Child Labor by Retric on Friday April 14, 2023 @08:39AM (#35568862)
Feudalism isn’t dependent on an educated workforce and historically the two could not coexist.
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Re:Your iPhone Was Built with Child Labor by cassianoleal on Friday April 14, 2023 @09:05AM (#35569156)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
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Re:Your iPhone Was Built with Child Labor by Retric on Friday April 14, 2023 @10:42AM (#35570088)
Hardly, feudalism runs into span of control issues. Its rise and fall around the world coincides with a specific mix of agricultural practice and at most light industry.

Thus not all economic systems are compatible with an educated workforce which means they aren’t orthogonal.

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