• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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    I think you would have to be extremely uneducated to be outraged about this now. It’s not a new thing, the party of child marriage and child labour gets elected and you’re shocked about child labour? Are people going to feign surprise when they try to lower the age of consent laws again?

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    3 months ago

    The party of “family values” was always referring to the value of their labor potential those greedy pieces of shit were longing to utilize.

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    3 months ago

    I mean coincidentally they shut down the department of education. Kinda seems like a convenient time to put kids back to work.

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    I am so fucking glad that fate lifted me from out of my shit hole home state to Chicago 15 years ago. I count my lucky stars everyday and night. I hope this shit inspires my younger brother and his fiancee to think of the future of my 3 year old nephew and get the hell outta there, but my brother is employed by the VA, so no telling how long he’ll have the financial meane to do so even if he wanted

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    Insane.? Yes. Shocking? No. Escalating? Yes. They’ve been doing this for decades with prison labor and youth “education” programs. Of course their gonna expand it under the Milkshake Nazis.

    It’s why every leftist with a brain has been shouting for decades against “work programs” to get food stamps and juvenile detention programs with private prisons. They build the structures for this to make is much easier for the population to accept.

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    MAGA “Conservatives” are either evil, stupid, or both. You cannot be a supporter of MAGA and also a good and intelligent person. The concepts are antithetical to each other.

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    And remember the follow up… If it’s legal for kids to work overnight with no breaks, it’ll soon be mandatory or you’d lose whatever social security survives…

    And then it’ll just be mandatory because there is no social security safety net and you are now officially an indentured servant of the Florida kingdom

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    “People don’t want to work anymore.” in one hand. “Children can help fix the labor shortage.” in the other.

    Just ways to beat people into submission with whatever words sound good in the moment.

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      “People don’t want to work anymore [under these conditions and for this pay]”

      Children though have less of an insight they’re being screwed over, and if the laws and parents match up, they have no say anyway.

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        No one wants to work. It’s true. We are all forced to work and the people who don’t see this are also the ones at the top who don’t do actual work.

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          Back when TED Talks were all decent and not a money grab, I saw one presenter talk about the coming automation and the need for economic safety nets, and he brought up a good point. Man has tried to minimize work ever since the beginning, but just as we get to a point where most people could eliminate it altogether, we want to hold onto that last little bit. Some good reasons, but most are centered around the need for income and the need for identity, which aren’t great ones. He mentioned the phrase “working for a living”, which can also be termed “having to work to be alive”, both in the necessity of income and in the Puritan way of seeing people that don’t have to work hard as worthless.

          People should be able to work on things for pleasure or creation or even some other type of fulfillment, but not because without that work they aren’t people. Yet that’s how society views work. “What do you do” is a much more common casual intro than “what are you interested in”. And there are arguments about how we can even get to a point like that, if such a utopia is just that, a fantasy. But we sure aren’t trying hard to put systems in place to help us get there, at least not the ones that help the people who are hurt by things like automation (which is its own debate, of course).

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      Of course it is, same as it ever was. Want to help your parents, work overnight at the slaughter factory, sleep in school and quit your extracurriculars. Lose a finger, well they followed Florida safety laws use your health insurance.

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        Only in Florida would someone have read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and thought, “this is the family dynamic we need to bring back to working class Americans”.

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    This is the type of Family Values I VOTED for!

    -Republicans attacking Trans People for being Inappropriate for Kids