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.
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nice one, can almost smell Florida in this sentence
🤣 I'm so glad i don't know that smell.
The children, they yearn for the factories.
It's the tiny hands, it gives them a sense of pride in their work that they have an edge on adults.
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...
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.
Dropping a /s would be nice. Without an obvious tone it hit a little too close. But then you really nailed that roleplay, so...
My internet educate, unlike the rest of my social growth, is stuck in 2006.
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
I felt like the kids applying and renting housing or being lazy were big enough flags.
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.
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.
Such entrepreneurial spirit! Something something hustle culture...
I mean, it looks like she still has all her fingers. Idk what the big deal is...
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.
They're giving her career education. If anything, she should be paying them!
They missed the hashtag #girlboss
She probably loves to work like this, who are we to be taking that away from children?
The children yearn for the ~~mines~~ looms
The children yearn for the yarn
The children yarn for the looms.
The 'loons' yearn for the children...
Those orphans aren’t going to crush themselves.
The machine must be kept running!
And then the GOP would find a way to shut the paper down for publishing the photo.
I'm going to sue you for one billion dollars over that comment!