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This is the HN classic pro-sweatshop labor argument but aimed at americans? An interesting variant I guess.
by giraffe_lady 3y ago
This is the HN classic pro-sweatshop labor argument but aimed at americans? An interesting variant I guess.
- dinkumthinkum 3y agoWhere is the sweatshop from these changes in laws? This is beyond hyperbolic. This is not about sweatshops.
- throwup238 3y agoYou think the desirable employers are the ones that need bodies so badly they’ll hire children? Don’t kid yourself, they’ll be lucky if they work in sweatshops and not in abattoirs.
- dinkumthinkum 3y agoWhere are the sweatshops? Are you all delusional? Have you all not heard of the fact that teenagers have worked jobs for decades? This is unbelievable.
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- text0404 3y agoit's worse than sweatshops. from the article: > Despite such findings, a new Iowa law signed last year by Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) allows minors in that state to work in jobs previously deemed too hazardous, including in industrial laundries, light manufacturing, demolition, roofing and excavation but not slaughterhouses. Separately, West Virginia enacted a new law this month that allows 16- and 17-year-olds to work some roofing jobs as part of an apprenticeship program. > Six more states are also evaluating bills to lift restrictions preventing minors from working jobs considered dangerous. A Georgia bill would allow 14-year-olds to work in landscaping on factory grounds and other prohibited work sites. Florida’s legislature has passed a law, drafted by the state’s construction industry association, that would allow teens to work certain jobs in residential construction. It’s awaiting approval from DeSantis.
- busterarm 3y agoI grew up dirt-maximum-food-stamps-and-rent-control poor, in New York City, and I was LUCKY that labor laws allowed me to work full time since I was 15 years old. This helped me to avoid homelessness and complete high school.
- MisterBastahrd 3y agoI grew up dirt poor and worked 3 jobs to put myself through college, and I still wouldn't wish that shit on anybody.
- AnarchismIsCool 3y agoBecause rich people thought you were worthless. If the 0.1% and congress wasn't comprised of psychopaths you would have had your needs paid for so you could have focused on your education.
- Retric 3y agoWorking a full time jobs is hardly the only possibility that would have enabled you to avoid homelessness and complete high school. Systems are complex things, if you look at individual pieces in isolation you end up with suboptimal outcomes.
- busterarm 3y ago> Working a full time jobs is hardly the only possibility that would have enabled you to avoid homelessness and complete high school. Sure you know more about my own lived experience than I do...
- Retric 3y agoThe specifics of your personal situation is irrelevant when talking about government policy. Paying highschool students is one example of a possible solution that eliminates requiring underage employment for graduation.
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- BlarfMcFlarf 3y ago> [W]hile colonization, with its techniques and its political and juridical weapons, obviously transported European models to other continents, it also had a considerable boomerang effect on the mechanisms of power in the West, and on the apparatuses, institutions, and techniques of power. A whole series of colonial models was brought back to the West, and the result was that the West could practice something resembling colonization, or an internal colonialism, on itself - Michel Foucault