As a counterpoint, Canada (and presumably the US too) has seen a dramatic decrease in unintentional injury mortality among children over the last 70 years.
The Overprotected American Child
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Re: The Overprotected American Child
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
HN explicitly allows circumventable paywalls, please don't pollute discussions with complaints about them. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html > Are paywalls ok? > It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds. > In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic.
OK, so what's the workaround to read this behind a paywall?
Click the "web" link just below the article's title. Most sites with a paywall let you read an article if you arrived at it via a google search page.
Re: The Overprotected American Child
#13You do wonder how a contemporary American would read Herman Hesse's Demian. Emil Sinclair, the protagonist, he had a protected childhood!
Re: The Overprotected American Child
#14Child poverty is the real problem. https://peoplespolicyproject.org/2018/02/16/americas-bizarre...
Geez, that article really felt light on examination, then bam, "the solution is obvious, tax the rich more!" And why wouldn't they compare the US to other countries like Canada, Germany, UK, France, etc. ? We all already know that the Nordic countries really have their act together and are effectively a cherry picked example. Maybe I'm being paranoid but is this what fake news looks like? The whole point of the artic…
> Maybe I'm being paranoid but is this what fake news looks like?
Fake news is literally made up nonsense, usually that appeals to emotion or existing political bias.
Re: The Overprotected American Child
#15Child poverty is the real problem. https://peoplespolicyproject.org/2018/02/16/americas-bizarre...
> "20 percent of US children live in families with incomes below 50 percent of the national median income"
This is a bizarre metric. If richer families started having children at a higher rate, or poorer families slowed down, the problem would be fixed?
What if we simply cut the pay of the upper 50%, not even redistributing the income? That would lower median income, and therefore shrink the "less than 50% of median income" demographic, "solving" child poverty.
Re: The Overprotected American Child
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
HN explicitly allows circumventable paywalls, please don't pollute discussions with complaints about them. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html > Are paywalls ok? > It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds. > In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic.
OK, so what's the workaround to read this behind a paywall?
I don’t think that works with wsj anymore since the whole Google Amp thing. Just tried your suggestion and was met with paywall after first couple paragraphs.
Re: The Overprotected American Child
#17Child poverty is the real problem. https://peoplespolicyproject.org/2018/02/16/americas-bizarre...
Geez, that article really felt light on examination, then bam, "the solution is obvious, tax the rich more!" And why wouldn't they compare the US to other countries like Canada, Germany, UK, France, etc. ? We all already know that the Nordic countries really have their act together and are effectively a cherry picked example. Maybe I'm being paranoid but is this what fake news looks like? The whole point of the artic…
No, you are trying to lump state-sponsored attacks on democratic institutions in with opinion pieces that you disagree with, which is not only disengenous but also very very dangerous.
Re: The Overprotected American Child
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
OK, so what's the workaround to read this behind a paywall?
Click the "web" link just below the article's title. Most sites with a paywall let you read an article if you arrived at it via a google search page.
It doesn’t work, and please take the ten seconds it takes to check that your advice is relevant before you give it.
Re: The Overprotected American Child
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
HN explicitly allows circumventable paywalls, please don't pollute discussions with complaints about them. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html > Are paywalls ok? > It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds. > In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic.
OK, so what's the workaround to read this behind a paywall?
Most sites want traffic from social media, and you can thus visit them with referer headers from Facebook, e.g. via https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/article...
Re: The Overprotected American Child
#20As a counterpoint, Canada (and presumably the US too) has seen a dramatic decrease in unintentional injury mortality among children over the last 70 years. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28026710
Yes, although that study suggests the big declines have been with things like choking and burns among very young children. I don't think anyone is arguing for more dangerous products or getting rid of safety precautions for toddlers.
That study also suggests more vehicle-related accidents but it's hard to know what to make of that without knowing more about the type of accidents, population patterns, etc.