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…solves the low-wage problem by hiring kids who don’t know better.
Then we’ll just have to organise and unionise the kids too!
Or better yet, we should enact laws that protect children from the workforce. Maybe we can call them “child labor laws”
A preposterous idea! - conservatives, apparently.
You hate American and want [others] to have more [economy, Jesus’ love,reality shows]… you monsters
Freedom is where you can send your kids to the mines.
Ah yes. The famous quote from Jesus when he said, “thou shalt exploit thy workers for maximum profit without regard for the worker’s well-being.” in Rand 420:69
Or when Jesus said, “Thou must love thyself above thy neighbor.” in Freedman 6:66
Kids being able to form their own unions in schools have never been a bad idea - but for some reason nobody on the left has ever spoken about this (as far as I can tell.)
Be great if the kids learned to unionize early
…solves the low-wage problem by hiring kids who don’t know better.
And they’re at work instead of school so they don’t learn better.
It’s on the weekends, they wouldn’t go to school anyway
Nor will they taste the freedom of being a child.
Just as what the overlord intended.
School already deprives you of that
Some facts to consider:
- This happened in New South Wales, in a very rural area. People are not going to commute out to this remote location for minimum wage.
- Kids volunteer on the weekends and parents sign off on it.
- Some of the kids like it because they don’t have anything else to do, they learn a job skill, and they make a little money.
That said, I don’t agree with it. Hire adults and do what everyone else does by having a “bring your child to work day/week” if you want to teach kids. Or make a field trip. Let’s not go backwards in society to benefit companies.
Kids volunteer on the weekends and parents sign off on it.
I grew up in a poor rural area, and we had a bunch of child labor due to agriculture exceptions.
Most of it wasn’t kids earning a “life skill” or pocket money. It was poor kids who had to work. And usually their parents worked there too.
And they only need to be 12 for it to be legal.
The families need the kids to work, but the kids working inflates the labor pool and keeps wages low.
If a kids like 16 and wants to pick up a part time job, cool.
But little kids shouldn’t be holding down jobs.
Having partially grown up with this shit, I would say these asshole can absolutely get fucked and do the work themselves. They good enough to count beans, they good enough to clear the land, plant em, take care of them, harvest them, and sell 'em all before they get to do beancounting duties. You count the beans you bring to market by the sweat of your own brows, no exceptions
Might help them realize why Protestant work ethic shit is garbage exploiter nonsense
“minimum wage” <- thars yer prooblem
Can’t spell “minimum wage” without “minimum age!”
“Well if we pay much more than that, it will dip into OUR profit! What are we supposed to do, just make less money?!”
Child poverty is a big issue but people seem to forget that work is the best thing again poverty /s
Really? I’m over here in Texas and we seem to have found a completely different solution to childhood poverty. And childhood…
Guns and building schools across the street from poorly regulated fertilizer factories.
Wow did not realise that three of our states don’t have a minimum working age - NSW, Tasmania and South Australia.
Not as fucked up as it sounds. Federally, the minimum working age is 16 and parents are legally required to keep their kids in school until they’re 16. Most Aussies believe you need to be 14 and 9 months to get a job (beyond the family business), as that was an older minimum schooling requirement (decades ago).
Combined with the high quality of living, low poverty rate, high immigration (suppressing wages), and high minimum wage, this functionally meant that there was never any reason for the states to mandate a minimum working age — businesses didn’t seek to employ them.
Obviously now that capitalism has corrupted most governments and abandoned the social contract, we need to rethink all norms of modern society.
I see red hats and reflexively cringe.
???
This should make you feel a murderous rage, not cringe.
Should this be cross posted to uplifting news? Seems about their speed.
Done, with some changes. https://mander.xyz/post/10393242
Can we not bomb and raid other communities, pretty please?
I know the community is not perfect, but let’s not turn Lemmy into a warzone. We’re not on Reddit.
Just out of curiosity what do you define as raiding? I don’t know much about the term as I never posted on reddit.
Update, they do not like it
Extra Update, they pulled it for not being “uplisfting” enough.
“admin Removed Post Great news for jam lovers! reason: Not uplisfting”
I do find it odd since they still have a lot of the same posts as here and orphan crushing machine.
