Children took care of themselves.
An implicit lesson in why "childcare" was less of an issue in preindustrial times.https://twitter.com/HenryRothwell/status/1283004010103013376 …
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The ones that survived child mortality. I come from a region of the world where this lifestyle still exists. Not pretty.
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Turns out education meant to produce factory workers isn’t serving us anymore...
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Well they could do programming by your side as well.
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And why high child mortality was an issue :)
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i think most of rhe child mortality was among 5-and-unders--although when ppl moved from family workshops to factories, work mortality was very high for children
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Builds character and work ethic!
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If software engineers existed back then, their kids could do manual QA, I guess.
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Probably also an illustration of why sons were so likely to follow their father into the same profession.
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