could <corporations> be behind the hyper-prolongation of childhood?  > 10 million years: children help family with work. hunting, gathering, making clothing and shelters, tool - farming, crafting, etc. > industrial revolutoin: *exists* > people are abused by capitalist corporatins > children are abused by corporations > child labor laws: *exists* > now children cant work until age 14 (the previous age of adulthood) > children now sit inside learning lots of interesting but ultimately useless (in terms of their profession) information for decades (read: 20+ years) of their lives > manual labor that previously was done by children is now done by foreign slaves and illegal immigrant slaves, many of whomst work for the corporations > everyone becomes a specialized office drone and sees all work as toil. > everyone is worked to the bone except the elites what a coinkidink it would be if it turned out that corporations were behind the push to extend school well past the age of biological adulthood, resulting in the necessities of life (food, shelter, clothing) behind produced with slave labor, from which they profit handsomely
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