• sinkingship@mander.xyz
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    7 months ago

    You’re not wrong and my comment is supposed to be jokingly.

    I’m sure you used your example to show how easy it is, it just sounds so terribly distopian. Your point could have been an optimistic outlook into a different future but:

    Why? Why of all things that can be used to turn an alternator, why the heck does it have to be child labor?

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      7 months ago

      I could have said we put a dog in a treadmill to do it, like how we used to rotate meat on spits. But in my head I was thinking more of a parent using the electricity to do something and getting their kid to turn the crank.