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How wonderful that kids in the US have the luxury of being kids...
After the American kid grows up they are even more fortunate to be able to pay this kid and his kids to make cheap crap to stock the shelves in Wal*Mart.
You realize, of course, that China is facing a demographic crisis that -- unless they start shooting citizens upon reaching age 70 -- is going to cripple that country in the coming years. The crisis is real and looming fast, which explains a great deal of their breakneck economic growth. The Chinese, you see, are racing against time.
Right now, at this very moment, the Chinese have the largest working age population that they ever will. Around 2014, the number of working age Chinese will begin to decrease, according to the United Nations. And the decrease will not be gradual. It will be a plunge. Imagine the biggest, scariest roller coaster. Imagine the slow climb to the top, followed by the gut-wrenching drop. That's what things are going to be like in the coming years for China.
What's more, manufacturing jobs are beginning to leave China right now, chiefly because labor costs have increased at roughly 20% a year for the past several years. Had you attended a furniture trade show last year, you would have seen a lot of product made in China and shipped over in containers. Had you attended one in the past few months, you would have seen that a lot of that manufacturing migrated rather quickly to places such as Vietnam and Indonesia.
I love a good story and all but what does any of this have to do with a kid on a front end loader? Not one person on these forums has sufficient data to make any kind of conclusion.
...and I bet he doesn't spend his lunch hour boozing it up at the bar down the street.
As for "letting kids be kids", operationg a front-end loader would have been the highlight of my childhood.
Seriously. I've lived in the Bay Area since my family moved here from Russia when I was six years old but I have clear memories of running around Kiev with a few friends and no adult supervision playing on idling cranes and tractors at construction sites. If someone saw a group of six year old kids running around without supervision in San Francisco (or any big city in the US) before you know it a SWAT team and child welfare workers would swarm the city.
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