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Don't forget schools are also designed to keep kids off the labor market until they're ~18. Imagine what giving all those 13 year olds $2/hour jobs would do to
by grecy 7y ago
Don't forget schools are also designed to keep kids off the labor market until they're ~18.
Imagine what giving all those 13 year olds $2/hour jobs would do to the labor market.
- a1369209993 7y agoDon't worry, we have minimum wage! So it's illegal to hire anyone whose work is worth less than 10$/hr (or whatever, I think LA (CA) would be 15). But no basic income, because then businesses might actually have to negotiate with people who aren't desperate for any way of affording basic necessities.
- cameronbrown 7y agoGiving everyone UBI just means the cost of living goes up.
- spaginal 7y agoI was one of those teenagers at 13. I appreciated the work training from early experience in the job market. The skills learned from getting mentored by the business owners for the small business I worked for as a teenager was invaluable as I got older. I wouldn’t have traded that for anything. Teenagers now only get their head filled up with lofty ideas as to how it should work, then go into the market at 18 with no experience in a job, no employment training, and no real concept of what it means to actually work and run a business.
- Aeolun 7y ago> then go into the market at 18 with no experience in a job, no employment training, and no real concept of what it means to actually work and run a business. Either at 13 or at 18, the thing is the same though. With the difference that at 18 they’re suddenly expected to know things that weren’t ever taught to them.
- ryanwaggoner 7y agoDecrying the advent of child labor protection laws is an certainly a less common version of “kids these days!”, I’ll grant you that.