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"When Mother Jones inquired as to why the newspapers neglected to report the facts about child labor in Pennsylvania, she was informed that the employers of those children had stock in the newspapers. Her response, 'Well, I’ve got stock in these little children and I’ll arrange a little publicity.'”

https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/philadelpian-mill-children-march-against-child-labor-exploitation-1903

I keep thinking of this from cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky, on the Aug 19/26 episode of the Trevor Noah podcast: "The things that we think are possible, are often just the things that we're used to."