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"It is worth asking why it has come to be the conventional wisdom that laws ended child labor (and the longer work day and work week). It likely reflects our evolutionary and intellectual biases that lead us to think we directly control more of the social world than we really do. It is easier, as well as morally more self-satisfying, to believe that we intentionally made something unpleasant go away through taking a stand against it, than that underlying processes we do not control were responsible."

We Didn't Humanize Markets, Markets Humanized Us | Steven Horwitz

The real credit for the long-run decline in child labor and hours worked belongs to competitive capitalism, which enabled the growth of capital that increased labor…

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