Nice redirection...
And they’re gonna “cane em” back In the storeroom too. 🙄
It is. Who started this thread anyway? Oh. You did.
This post perfectly encapsulates the zero sum prism that some people view the economy through.
Nice "in theory" response.... The free market is impossible too. People in charge of money will sell you that all day long.
If the pie of wealth is fixed, who was hiding all the trillions in wealth Americans enjoy now when only Native Americans roamed the plains?
Some won’t ever get that. It wasn’t covered in the Social Justice Studies Department.
All kidding aside.
it was pretty common for kids as young as 12 to at least be making money off a paper route, mowing grass, shoveling snow etc. Seems to be extremely rare nowadays.
Oh, sorry. I didn't think this was a serious thread when I read that paying people who volunteer to work was "slave labor".
All kidding aside.
Back in my day
Denying affirmative care causes more problems than it fixes. If it's about the well being of children, they should both be protected against exploitive work and be able to receive healthcare.
Scarcity as an economic concept is universal, whether it’s universally understood or not.
Yeah. Because we know no crazy goddamned parents are out there exploiting their children.
Some are. But overall denying kids care is more detrimental than healing. We already lived through this with conversion camps.
I'm in favor of not calling shit "slave labor" that isn't slave labor. I worked an overnight shift the summer I was 16 at Ramada in setting up the banquet rooms. I was paid for it. It was a great job and it wasn't slave labor. I bet they are calling a Wednesday in July "a school night" as well. Another lie.
This isn't summers. It's on school nights. Read the OP.
I did. Didn't see the words "slave labor" anywhere. Odd you're not taking issue with that phrasing.
It's not slave labor. I agree. But loosening these protections will only screw over kids. Surely you can agree.
I don't think it's the greatest thing in the world but I don't think it's the worst. There are plenty of teenagers who would be much better off working than finishing another year of school that they don't want to attend or are getting anything out of. Why are we letting kids drop out at the age of 16 then? I'd say it's much better those kids are working than not working.
I'd imagine that this would increase dropout rates. I can't imagine pulling nights shifts and going to school the next day would be beneficial.
You wrote: “The only way to concentrate more and more wealth is to have a much larger number of poor.”
There seems to be plenty of kids out at night committing crimes and running the streets. But working? Ohh nozzz…
