It is sadly not a satire article and comment section there has taken it quite seriously as well.
I would have posted an archive.org snapshot instead but the latter refuses to crawl the site due to pay wall restrictions.
It is sadly not a satire article and comment section there has taken it quite seriously as well.
I would have posted an archive.org snapshot instead but the latter refuses to crawl the site due to pay wall restrictions.
What’s wrong with teenagers working a few hours a week? I think that’s a good thing. Where I live, it’s rare for, say, a 17 year old to not work at all.
I’m all for it… As long as they get paid as much as their adult peers!
It’s a bad idea to get kids socialized, thinking low pay is ever acceptable.
There should also be mandatory training about wage theft and how serious a crime it is for an employer to expect anyone to show up early or stay late without paying for that extra time. Have a great big award ceremony for the kids that reported employers who were caught pulling that shit! Make the employer pay them an amount equivalent to all the lost wages times three.
You want people to have more kids? Have the state give parents tax benefits (or just checks!) for each child’s earnings until they’re 25 or so.
I’m not sure a 17 year old working a few hours a week is what they’re thinking of.
Ok the tone of the article is mostly fuzzy, but it seems the publication did explicitly ask for a “defense of child labor” article, which they then published with an Oliver Twist photo. 🤔
A 17yo isn’t not a kid.
Is it is not a kid, what do you mean? And what is your point exactly?
I think the point is that the term “child labor” could be broadly interpreted as anywhere from teenagers having part time jobs to little kids slaving away in Victorian workhouses. There’s obviously a lot of differences between those extremes and I think most people tend to think of something closer to the latter when they hear “child labor.”