• @[email protected]
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    “Who can actually go out there and do something that makes them have value and work skills for the future?” McCormick said.

    Children have no value unless they’re producing something.

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    • Lemminary
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      85 months ago

      Who needs childhood? Buncha spoiled brats not yearning for the mines.

  • Queen HawlSera
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    195 months ago

    Looks for the Onion logo, isn’t finding it

    Oh my God he’s serious,.

  • Flying Squid
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    95 months ago

    Even in the reddest of red states, a first grader isn’t going to be working at McDonalds. They wouldn’t even be able to understand how even if they were tall enough to reach anything there, which they aren’t.

    • @[email protected]
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      35 months ago

      Well they can starve until they grow up enough. If god meant for kids to have food, he would have made it grow on trees!

  • @[email protected]
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    115 months ago

    Oh yeah, 8 year old me should have just pulled myself up by my bootstraps back in the day. Jeez, fuck these guys.

  • TimeSquirrel
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    Before I was even 13 years old, I was picking berries in the field, before child labor laws that precluded that.

    “Back in my day I ate shit so you can too” is never a good argument for anything. That line of thinking just justifies societal regression. We want our children to have it easier, not replicate our same struggles over and over again. Boomer worldviews need to die.

    • @[email protected]
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      75 months ago

      And before the NLRB, the preferred method of coming to a union understanding was to get a group of like-minded coworkers to convince the boss at the end of a blunt instrument.

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      565 months ago

      He was 12 in 1980, when minimum wage was $3.10, which looks like about the equivalent of 12 bucks today. Wanna take bets on whether this asshole is for or against a minimum wage increase?

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      275 months ago

      Yeah someone needs to vomit on this dude. Go eat 30-40 flapjacks at the mcds and just letter rip

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      175 months ago

      This guy is full of shit on that point anyway as farms get a lot of exemptions to child labor laws.

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      115 months ago

      Children should have opportunities to learn work skills. They shouldn’t have to rely on that to eat. Pricks

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      Before I was even 13 years old, I was picking berries in the field, before child labor laws that precluded that.

      Parents in former USSR countries think like that

  • Riskable
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    125 months ago

    Why? These poor, worthless souls don’t even want to work! Instead, I have A Modest Proposal

      • The Quuuuuill
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        65 months ago

        don’t i know it. did you know america ariel bombed workers seeking just payment and a 40 hour work week? because they did. and they did it in the gOlDeN aGe that our president wants to return to