Wanna be it’ll be brown and black children that owe lunch money?
The party of “family values” was always referring to the value of their labor potential those greedy pieces of shit were longing to utilize.
St. Augustine, 2027
(Yes the ‘women’ in the picture are children)
Jacksonville:
“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.
“nobody wants to work”
True, that’s why you have to pay them to get them to do it.
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.
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).
“…always has been.” 🔫
Spoiler alert, nobody ever wanted to work, that’s why you have to pay us.
“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.
Kids would yearn for the mines if only they were forced to experience them.
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
Well, this is America, and parents are free to make those kind of choices. My children will not be working those fields (especially considering they’re in VA). As always, the poor and their children will be the most exploited in this endeavor, but considering these same people are orange voters, I really only feel bad for the children.
“The beatings will continue, until morale improves.”
Or the poor stop letting themselves be taken advantage of, and the not so poor, but poorly educated or informed, graduate to better informing themselves. All the information is available out there. People simply need to open their eyes and consume it, instead of being told what to think from a talking head on tv.
It’s incumbent upon every member of society to protect the weakest and most powerless, or else you are complicit in wielding the boot.
And don’t forget the importance in supporting our institutions, the ones that DOGE is working hard to kill.
It is an unfortunate situation in that half the people who voted in the US, specifically voted against protecting the weakest and most powerless. Many of themselves ARE part of that group, but don’t want help because it would also help other people.
At this point, those who DO want to protect the weakest and most powerless, are themselves powerless to help.
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.
Summary of what I understood:
- Florida work force: 27% born in foreign countries
- Florida farm workers: 60% born in foreign countries
- Florida state: eager to persecute immigrants
Proposal:
- allow child labour for unlimited hours, if home schooled or distance learning
- allow 30 hours per week during study sessions
- allow 6 days of consecutive work
- allow work during school hours
- allow early and late work, even if school next day
- allow more than 8 hours per day, even if school next day
That seems 19th century stuff. Back then, in the bad old times, anarchists shot politcians and workers had street battles with cops over this kind of minor issues.
You know those kids are pretty small as well, I’m sure they can work with chimeys a lot better than an adult.
*labor. Not lab our.
“Not lab our” isn’t a complete sentence. Please conform to all rigid forms of prescriptivist communication if you’d like to continue nitpicking stupid shit.
Ah, nice to remember. :) I’m used to speaking and writing UK English - I learnt it that way and it became a habit. (In the UK, they write colour intead of color, labour instead of labor, tyre instead of tire, grey instead of gray, etc.)
Yep, British English got these words from Norman French. In the 20th Century, Webster’s reforms attempted to simplify American English and lost a bunch of these silent vowels.
I mean coincidentally they shut down the department of education. Kinda seems like a convenient time to put kids back to work.
Next; children leaving education at 10 to start working.
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.
The children yearn for the mines!
It’s what Minecraft was made for, training.
All our elevators are garbage because the children refuse to mine straight up or down
They’re gonna be shipped off to GreenIand
I’m so glad not to have been born in that shithole country.
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?
Well, Americans are nothing if not terribly uneducated.
Fair point
Right, you should be murderously furious, not outraged.
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
This is the type of Family Values I VOTED for!
-Republicans attacking Trans People for being Inappropriate for Kids
