FL wants more child labor
FL wants more child labor
Because the existing workforce keeps getting deported.
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Dodged the bullet by being born in the 80s. We played Atari and Nintendo after school, then bicycle patrol around neighborhood
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I was born in the 80s. I had a paper route at 13 so I could buy an OG PlayStation. Definitely not crazy shift work, but I wonder how a 13 year old could find employment for some spending money these days.
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...born in the seventies, i was working by fifth grade and overnight by high school; longest shift i ever pulled was twenty-six hours without a break...
...kids born in the eighties enjoyed nineties child labor laws, which were kind of a mixed blessing: less exploitation but also less opportunities to earn money...
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Kids shouldn't have to be earning money. We are more than a cog in some capitalist's machine. Productivity has massively increased and instead of demanding the gains of that increase we bemoan the loss of "opportunities".
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...adults shouldn't have to be earning money either; good luck with that...
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That's the whole point, too bad you seem to be siding with the wealth hoarders
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...siding?..i do what i must to survive but, if that comes across as advocating for serfdom, you're inferring something i certainly didn't imply...
...working as a kid afforded me toys, books, tapes, and musical instruments; working as an adult afforded me fcking rent and insurance premiums...
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All things you could have been provided with if your country had had functioning welfare and education systems
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You poor thing
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... is this a boast or a cautionary tale? I really can't tell...
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