• sorosfootsoldier
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    4 months ago

    Good. If adults don’t want to work because they’re lazy and on welfare then their kids will. The treats will flow and there’s nothing the loony left can do about it 😤

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          4 months ago

          “Sorry Ma’am. All our high chairs are being used in the kitchen at the moment.”

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          Now I’m imagining “The Matrix” style grow tanks lining production lines where fetuses send signals to machines to do work because hiring 5 year olds to too expensive.

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          4 months ago

          Or just find ways to replace workers with AI, which would probably be their first choice.

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            Incentivizing the exploitation of children seems like a wonderful way to kill an obscene amount of children.

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                And it isn’t incentivizing parents to push their children to work at increasingly younger ages? Even at the expense of school, social life, and development? Especially the poorest families?

                You are reinventing the entire problem that created child labour to begin with.

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                  Pal, reading the entire thread will show you that I’m against child labor and cracking the joke that children should cost more to employ as a way to prevent cheap child labor.

                  It’s a joke. Child labor is bad. Goodnight.

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                    Wow, it’s very obvious that you are joking.

                    Could you explain the joke maybe? I think you may have forgotten the part that’s supposed to make people laugh. I genuinely don’t see how what you said is supposed to be a joke.

                    Don’t worry though buddy. I’m sure it’s all in good fun.

                • 2484345508@lemy.lol
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                  4 months ago

                  I think we are on the wrong page.

                  By charging I mean the wage. Charging more for a kid. I can see how my choice of words was confusing.

                  Let me reword it:

                  Requiring that children under 18 get an additional wage of $5/hr per year they are under 18 (17 = +5, 16 = +10, etc) is a way to discourage companies from hiring underage workers by making them cost more.

                  • 🏳️‍⚧️ 新星 [she/they]
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                    I know, but my point is that with it now being legal, poor families will now sell their kids out as young as they possibly can out of desperation to anyone who will pay to earn wages even the adults can’t get, and now you’ve just made child slavery a thing, and growing necessity, as real wages continue to decline