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  • JuneFall [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    It got a trove of fun quips that hit capitalism more than communism. It is all projection.

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    Of course most parents in capitalism working have trouble seeing their kids, too. With the added benefit of not having enough money for them to go to school properly. However the comic panel is even more fitting for UK boarding schools:

    Most (UK) schools that offer boarding have three distinct models: Full boarding (kids are at the boarding school i.e. Eton the whole year, except for potentially the holidays), Weekly boarding (kids can be at home over the weekend), Flexi-boarding (kids can be at home up to 7 times a week, but for plays and rehearsals and during exam period they stay in school)

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/upshot/single-mothers-surge-employment.html

    https://nwlc.org/4-3-million-women-work-multiple-jobs-to-make-ends-meet/

    • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Among the bourgeois in some places, kids go to boarding schools and only come home to see their family on the weekends. When I worked at a Taiwanese cram school, I knew a lot high school kids like this.

    • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      One of my grandmas was sent into foster care for a considerable length of time because her mother just couldn't cope with the child raising and apparently you could just do that in the 40s?