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[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 149 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago

$100 says he's against minimum wage, now where's my $100

[–] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 year ago

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

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 17 points 1 year ago

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

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

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

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.

[–] labbbb2@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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