• untorquer@lemmy.world
    392·
    2 days ago

    The children like to work actually, and they get benefits like affording housing and food. If it weren’t for child labor they’d just laze about all day starving in the streets for a lack of will to sustain themselves.

      • untorquer@lemmy.world
        13·
        2 days ago

        It’s the tiny hands, it gives them a sense of pride in their work that they have an edge on adults.

    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
      82·
      2 days ago

      What the actual… for a moment I thought you were trying - and failing - to be sarcastic - but this reads too much like a real opinion.

      edit: ok i see now that other comments are attempting a similar style of sarcasm, but this here just doesn’t work for me. I guess it’s different if you’re being taught precisely this type of nonsense…

      • untorquer@lemmy.world
        101·
        2 days ago

        Holy shit it’s wooshing still, i really tried. It’s parroting the pragerU statements on chattle slavery but transposing to child labor. Or was it TPUSA? idk.

        • wanderinglurk@lemmy.world
          51·
          2 days ago

          Dropping a /s would be nice. Without an obvious tone it hit a little too close. But then you really nailed that roleplay, so…

        • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
          3·
          2 days ago

          pragerU

          Considering some schools actually use their materials ig you have a point. Maybe add a little context next time, if - like me - you don’t like to use the /s

  • Smeagol666@crazypeople.online
    60·
    2 days ago

    Right? Every fucking idiotic story on “mainstream media” about some Girlscout selling enough cookies so her mother can get a kidney transplant makes me want to fucking vomit. I have no hope for this shithole of a country we live in.

  • 13igTyme@piefed.socialEnglish
    14·
    2 days ago

    Child labor never ended. Children of immigrants are often in the fields for the last several decades. Plus now the laws are being reversed for white kids.

    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
      13·
      2 days ago

      Came here to say this. Kids were employed because A) it was easier to exploit them and B) they were simply smaller and could get into the corners of those big machines with rattling open cogs & chains etc.

      The cynicism behind such decisions is heartbreaking. I mean even back then they could have designed the machines so that an adult could oil them while they’re running. I guess nobody ever thought of it.

      And just let me add:

      This is why we have socialism. Without it, who knows where our industrialised societies would be now. Even the most conservative or neoliberal shitbag massively benefits from what they fought for 100-200 years ago.