Republicans constantly pulling humanity backwards. Child labor!?! WHAT? It's never enough for these greedy pigs. Now they want to profit from stealing childhood from kids. So sick and utterly depraved!
this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2025
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All the while businesses are making record profits…
I recently produced a radio drama on what life was life before we had child labor laws, and how they came about. If you're interested, it's called "Florence Kelley, The Children's Champion."
What's with the bs headlines?? there is no "may be", they already did
I guess they wanted to keep the suffering and exploitation local too
There’s no labor shortage, there’s a livable wage shortage
Kids can be paid less, some tycoon somewhere probably...
They sure are trying to bring back the 1890s.
They aren't trying, they're succeeding.
I thought they'd stop at the 1930s, but it seems that your're plunging into the depth of history much faster than expected. You guys ought to sharpen your stone carving skills at this rate.
A good part of the Southern US economy was originally based on slave labour and since its abolition the business culture and mentality never moved on from it. They've just found new ways to have cheap labour that they can exploit to different levels. Immigrants, "unskilled" workers, rented prison labour... Now that the immigrant workers are being kicked out, they're looking for replacements to fill the gap.
Anything to avoid paying a living wage holy shit
Pay more. It's that simple. They're greedy.
And I'm willing to bet that it's all the same states where they make the biggest noise about how much they care about the kids while also wanting to marry them and fuck them.
This is one of the biggest reasons that I think reason number 1 that Trump and co won is hatred. Full stop. You can't claim that it was some attempt to protect children from the 'woke agenda' when you instead supported people that have had a reputation and tendency to want to marry, fuck and send children to work in the mines for decades now.
You can't claim it was for a better economy when Trump has a well known history of even bankrupting casinos and spent his entire previous presidency golfing. You can't claim it's 'anti-establishment' when all of the richest people in the world are amassing more power than ever before. You can't claim it's about freedom when we all watched Trump allow Erdogan's bodyguards to rough up American citizens on American soil the last time Trump was in charge. And you can't claim it's for 'free speech' when people get sent to prison for political beliefs.
It's nothing but hatred. These dumb fucking inbred clowns hate so strongly that they were willing to not only sacrifice the rights of their own mothers and sisters and daughters but were also willing to let their children grow up in a world run by known kiddie fiddlers with article after article backing up the evidence that the biggest pedos around are southern republicans and preachers.
Hateful, evil, profoundly fucking stupid people.
First they loosen the restriction OF work and next they'll tighten the restriction TO work. Guess what kids in juvenile hall gonna be doing soon.
Cotton farming?
What... young, nearly adult folks want to get a paycheck, too. At 16 I used to make 450$ a week cutting grass, ain't nothing wrong with kids earning a few bucks.
These kids aren't forced labor, I wasn't, but I did live like a king at 16.
Don’t forget about fucking up social security, pensions, and 401(k) accounts. You need the old people in the workforce to train the kids. Everyone I know who can sew is like 75.
Theres a culture chasm between old and young that the oldsters have no willingness to work to cross, and they overvalue their insights. On top of that they dont understand how much harder things are now than they used to be. Their entire context is so dated its erroneous anymore.
I get it but I’m not sure our septua/octogeneraian leadership does.
Soon kids will get cigars, whiskey and married at 13 again.
"They yearn for the mines, obviously. Why do you think the kids play so much Minecraft?" -Some Republican, probably-
The only way they will get manufacturing back in the US at the scale and cost they need is by eroding worker rights and increasing the cheap labour pool. And when you consider they also want to get rid of all illegals and migrants and anyone non-white really, all that’s left is the children.
Children and prison slave labor.
And the uneducated.
Which, well they’re getting rid of that, too.
They are doing a pretty good job of chasing away the educated too
Its amazing to me teens so eagerly sign up for minimum wage. McDonald's and the rest pay nothing and treat you like meat. Working for tips ain't it either.
You got to buy a car somehow. When I was 16 I got a job a McDonald's just to do that. Took me 6 months of saving at $4.25/hr. to purchase a $2000 1979 Ford Bronco. Got 6 miles to the gallon and gas was around $.50/gallon. Insurance was around $25/mo. All of this and 4-6 CDs per payday was feasible on that pay.
Isnt the whole point of tarrifs to make sure goods meet our very strict labour laws? :(
Already happening.