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They're coming for your children!!!
Won't someone PLEASE (actually) think of the children?
Who in their right fucking mind thinks letting teenagers work at landfills, meat processing plants, and logging companies is a good idea?! I think the record clearly shows that teenagers don’t always make the best damn decisions. Jesus wept this shit is insanity.
Party of family values…. They’re going to extract every last drop of value from them kids.
Well it's their fault they weren't born rich brought to you by the party of family values, if your family cared they'd have made more money before you were born.
Who in their right fucking mind thinks letting teenagers work at landfills, meat processing plants, and logging companies is a good idea?!
Well when COVID killed off a bunch of your workforce because you pretended it didn't exist and you don't know how many because you refused to keep accurate counts, and a bunch more retired because they figured they were close enough and COVID gave them an excuse, and all the undocumented immigrants are leaving because you're passing laws targeting them and to them it's not worth the pittance you've been gleefully paying them under the table- well, you've got to get more slaves from somewhere, right?
The same kind of people who, in Florida, are going to teach kids that slavery "taught black people valuable life skills."
Remember kids, if your arm gets ripped off by a meat grinder, that's not a horrific and totally preventable accident. No, it's a "life skill" you've just learned! "Getting your arm ripped off is painful." If we don't have kids shoving their hands into meat grinders, how are they going to learn these life lessons?
And generally the pay is fuckin' horseshit. Can barely pay rent at those payrates, let alone groceries for your family.
Which is why they want kids to do the work, kids will work for less money.
Which means adults that would be doing that job also get paid less because there's more competition for those spots.
Remove child labor and the rich owners might be slightly less rich. Which republicans vehemently disagree with.
Well we obviously don't care about kids getting shot up in schools, so why the hell would we care about them getting killed on the job?
The people pushing child labor: "Kids getting killed in schools is a tragedy. They should be getting killed in manufacturing plants so we can at least extract some usefulness out of them before we dump their tiny corpses on the sidewalk!"
The "pro-life" party strikes again.
They wanted to keep the kids alive so they could kill them. Must be more satisfying for them I guess.
Every time I think that the US is a civilized "first world" country, they find a way to remind me of the reality. It really is shocking how backwards some things are in certain states.
Hope you get a federal law to prevent similar accidents in the future...
First world = aligned with Western forces after WWII
Second world = aligned with Russia
Third world = everyone else
They're not "first world" country, if you compare them to other "third world" countries, you'll notice only one difference - US is rich and that's it. Everything else they're just 3rd world country.
Child labor has always been legal and widely used in the US agriculture. In fact American agriculture it's pretty much dependent on farmers using their large families as free labor.
They're trying to expand that to other industries but of course it doesn't work so well without the equivalent of the farmer argument.
But if you're upset because of the child labor or human rights themselves then that ship has long sailed.
In fact American agriculture it’s pretty much dependent on farmers using their large families as free labor.
That was always the excuse, but there's already exceptions for a family owned business regardless of industry.
I grew up on a tobacco farm, and most of my uncle's had them too. So me and all my cousins worked in them pretty much since we could walk. It wasn't that bad because it was a family thing.
We could have done that legally without the agriculture exception though. Especially since it was family we never got paid.
What the agriculture exception did mean tho was other kids were actual employees on someone else's farm or chicken/turkey processing plant. And that's a whole nother story especially considering the type of person to hire a literal child to slaughter birds for 8 hours at a time with a 100 other employees in shitty conditions just doesn't give a fuck about any of the employees.
They just want an employee they can pay less and won't stand up for themselves
This is what sickens me about America.
This country knows full well, what the right solutions are. We prop them on it's table every damn day. What does America do? Always going the opposite direction.
We worried about AI taking over jobs. It's happened and continues to happen, so we propped up UBI. America? "Naw, nah...no, you don't need that! Here, little Jack over there? Your boy right? Why, he's got too much time on his hands and plays too much video games. Now he needs to have a job. You'll let him get a job, won't you? If we lighten child labor laws some."
Fucking sickening, this country.
This country knows full well
This is the paradox. Are you sure this country knows? Why is the overwhelming majority in favor of capitalistic approaches which lead us exactly here? I don't think the country does know. Not really.
This is what libertarian politics enables. If they get their way, they'll all be snorting coke off the back of their 13-year-old wives while letting their 10-year-old children do all their work for them.
Not gonna lie, I was like "well at least they're having fun" until getting to where they were snorting their coke lol. That said, when I chuckled at orphan crushing machine memes, I didn't expect them to gradually materialize in the waking world.
Yeah and none of us actually expected Idiocracy to become reality either, yet here we are.
I mean, at least President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho actually listened to people smarter than him in an attempt to fix the issues plaguing the country that he governed, even when it went against enormous corporate interests. So, arguably Idiocracy is actually a step up from where we're at.
It seems strange to me that the framing of this is all about child labor laws--no one should have died working at any of these jobs, regardless of age--and OSHA is investigating all three incidents
They are framing it about child labor because a child died.
Who/What agency is investigating the death is not relevant to the fact that a child died while working in an industrial setting.
They are framing it the way they are because they do not think that children, or teens, should be legally able to work in these kinds of settings.
AND 2 other people have been killed at that same damn plant since 2020! How is OSHA not up their ass before this even happened.
Everyone who works in any kind of hazardous environment should watch this. Don't shake hands with danger folks. You have the right to refuse to do something you feel unsafe doing. Your life and limb are not worth it. Take your safety protocols seriously and don't let stupid people teach you to be complacent. Call out others. Turn those assholes in to OSHA, underfunded as they are.
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Yo, America. What the fuck are you guys doing over there?
Unlearning all of the lessons from the last century.
Red states have been using chopping education as a budget fixer for decades. These people are never taught, period.
They now have people stupid enough to want a dictatorship AND child slavery back on the menu.
For the dam time the gop does not care about protecting kids. It has never been about the kids it has always and will always be about hating the lgbtq community and non-whites.
For the last dam time part 2 electric boogaloo there is no shortage of people wanting to work. There is a shortage of pay! You pay people a real living wage and healthcare and you will have tons of people will be lining up to work.