My therapist made a comment about how China is a failed socialist experiment because they have 2-3 year olds working in factories. I responded “So we’ve been told.” She looks at me like I’m crazy. (Not a great look for a therapist) “I’ve not seen any evidence of that.”
“Because they’re such a closed country!”
“Which means you have no evidence to your point either?”
“Well, missionaries… anyway!”
Someone else has made a point re: object permanence not kicking it i find more convincing
Regarding this point, in marxs time it was less “fill bags and boxes” and more “run stuff back and forth” or “squeeze into the machine and see if you can see whats jamming it”, “sort these products into groups” or “push this button every time X happens”