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Except that (assuming you define "young boy" anything like I do, and you live in the developed world) you were not free to get a job, due to child labor laws an

Except that (assuming you define "young boy" anything like I do, and you live in the developed world) you were not free to get a job, due to child labor laws and mandatory schooling. I can't be too annoyed at your father, since most people don't even see the need to justify parents or teachers exercising authority over children, but if you ARE going to try to philosophically justify it, pretending that a child is just a member of the market economy with the same economic freedom as an adult strikes me as an obviously bullshit way to do so.

Mononokay 9y ago
Child labor laws and mandatory schooling are draconian - there really needs to be a fast-laned way for kids to test out of it.
- moate 9y ago
  Draconian is defined as a law that is "overly harsh or sever". It comes from a Greek legal scribe to tied severe punishments to minor offenses. No. That is not what those laws are. Mostly because you can "home school" a kid in the U.S. as a way around the mandatory schooling (there's just mandatory testing...which is what you want, a way to test out of the system)
  - Mononokay 9y ago
    HiSets and GEDs both require the test taker to be 16 or over in the majority of states, with a few (primarily Midwestern, granted) states not having ways to test out.
nickthegreek 9y ago
I could of babysat, asked neighbors for help with yard work, shovel snow or asked my parents if there were things that I could do on our property to earn an income. I got my first job when I was 15. I do want to point out that my father never filtered my internet. He just let me know that any site I visited was being tracked and that I should take that into consideration when being online. I maintained complete autonomy online and my parents did not lie or obscure what they were doing. I would say that this prepared me well for what would become 'social media' over a decade later. This parental tracking actually became a game of cat and mouse and I learned more about computers because of this. I was intrigued about how things could be monitored, how the OS and file systems worked. I ended up going to a vocational school for computer networking.
Veelox 9y ago
I was able to purchase a $1,000 computer when I was 14 due to smart saving of my money. While it isn't possible for everyone, I did grow up in a middle/upper middle class family where it was possible.
- ryanlol 9y ago
  From where did you get the money which you saved?

Mononokay 9y ago

Child labor laws and mandatory schooling are draconian - there really needs to be a fast-laned way for kids to test out of it.

moate 9y ago
Draconian is defined as a law that is "overly harsh or sever". It comes from a Greek legal scribe to tied severe punishments to minor offenses. No. That is not what those laws are. Mostly because you can "home school" a kid in the U.S. as a way around the mandatory schooling (there's just mandatory testing...which is what you want, a way to test out of the system)
- Mononokay 9y ago
  HiSets and GEDs both require the test taker to be 16 or over in the majority of states, with a few (primarily Midwestern, granted) states not having ways to test out.

nickthegreek 9y ago

I could of babysat, asked neighbors for help with yard work, shovel snow or asked my parents if there were things that I could do on our property to earn an income. I got my first job when I was 15. I do want to point out that my father never filtered my internet. He just let me know that any site I visited was being tracked and that I should take that into consideration when being online. I maintained complete autonomy online and my parents did not lie or obscure what they were doing. I would say that this prepared me well for what would become 'social media' over a decade later. This parental tracking actually became a game of cat and mouse and I learned more about computers because of this. I was intrigued about how things could be monitored, how the OS and file systems worked. I ended up going to a vocational school for computer networking.

Veelox 9y ago

I was able to purchase a $1,000 computer when I was 14 due to smart saving of my money. While it isn't possible for everyone, I did grow up in a middle/upper middle class family where it was possible.

ryanlol 9y ago
From where did you get the money which you saved?