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In the Midwest, the "better" option is to buy furniture from "The Amish". Parents bought a living room set, it was double what a similar set would be at the lo
by bluedino 3y ago
In the Midwest, the "better" option is to buy furniture from "The Amish".
Parents bought a living room set, it was double what a similar set would be at the local furniture superstore, but the fabric/cushions were a new level of terrible. Basically fell apart in two years.
It's a great place to find wooden tables, beds, dressers, but it's all heavy (as you'd expect) and hard to move.
If I was buying a sofa today I would get something from Stressless.
- SauciestGNU 3y agoAlthough the furniture quality is excellent, I worry about supporting child labor when doing business with the Amish. They pull their kids out of school after grade 8 to put them to work. I've also heard various things regarding the commonality of abusive practices within their religion. Trade-offs for everything!
- inglor_cz 3y ago"supporting child labor" From their point of view, the modern society may be needlessly infantilizing people who are halfway to adulthood. We even treat university students like kids, hence all the obsession with micromanaging their campus experience.
- nozzlegear 3y agoChild labor seems a bit more serious a concern.
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- illiac786 3y agoThere's a big range between 8 year old and average first year university student...
- inglor_cz 3y ago" after grade 8 " (the OPs concern) is more like 15 y.o., right?
- illiac786 3y agoOops, misread.
- schneems 3y agoEven at 15 years old you’re still a long way away from having a fully developed pre-frontal cortex. We used to think kids were like little adults, then we learned a bit about how the brain develops and how wildly wrong that mental model was.
- Tade0 3y agoLooking at the level of independence I and my peers handled at this age vs what is the norm now we might have overdone it.
- Aeolun 3y agoI mean, to some extend, but I don’t necessarily think that working is bad for a 13 year old. If they can work in a supermarket to earn some side income they can work anywhere (under limited guidance).
- treflop 3y agoIsn’t that just the average though? I’ve met plenty of wickedly level-headed 15 year olds and a whole lot of irresponsible 30 year olds. The variation is such to an extreme level too.
- tasuki 3y agoThis has been my experience too!
- inglor_cz 3y agoWhen I was 15, my brain was definitely pubescent and far from fully developed. But I was able to make some money by fixing computers or translating stuff from English to Czech anyway. There was no exploitation in those labor relations just because I was young. I am not manually skilled, but I can definitely see someone at 15 making a nice chair or a table instead. I don't think that 15 y.o.s should be treated as fully adult, some limitations on their work are perfectly OK (no ardous work, no work underground etc.). But barring them from working altogether will probably slow their development down. Not everything can be learnt from books or models, some real-world practice, including the most basic elements of interaction with customers/employers, is necessary.
- tengbretson 3y ago> They pull their kids out of school after grade 8 This is inaccurate. Their schooling is complete after grade 8.
- SauciestGNU 3y agoLike hell it is. What they want their kids learning is irrelevant, it's a travesty of "religious freedom" that we don't require this cult to educate their children to the same uniform standard as every other person in our society.
- throwaway892238 3y agoI dropped out of school in 9th grade. I make $200K a year. A friend of mine has a college degree and has been unemployed for a year. There is no uniform standard of education in the US. Kids in the South are being taught that evolution is on par with intelligent design. Poor black kids in Baltimore have on average a 3rd grade reading level in high school, while rich kids a few counties away are taught when to use a backdoor roth ira. Don't even mention "no child left behind". Maybe let's calm down a bit with the judgement.
- boringg 3y ago"few counties away are taught when to use a backdoor roth ira" What are you on about? Nobody is talking about a back door roth IRA in high school.
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- tengbretson 3y agoThey are not "people in your society". They have their own society and you are not a member.