Pretty messed up that child labor is making a comeback in the US

I guess it’s not surprising given decades of attacks on workers’ rights, but I thought that with all the “protect the children” rhetoric, there wouldn’t be so much support for allowing 14-year-olds to work in factories or long hours. Of course that was empty rhetoric and only applies to wedge issues like book bans and keeping school bathrooms policed. A few headlines about “labor shortages” and it’s time for red states to start letting more and younger children work. These laws are mainly to protect immigrant children working in the fields and factories. It won’t be affluent white suburban kids doing this work. This is not about your after school gig.

The declining rate of profit and its consequences…

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Mindful · 56-60, F

Lots of 14 yr old are in better mental shape that their parent, who are abandoning them or using them for barter with and trade. Sadly it a human … tradition bred from the greediest and wealthiest and most powerful… to allow such a life style by denying rights, harboring wealth, keeping true intentions secret, between the top percent. Oh and they poo poo on compassion. They Bully their own. … the narcisist is in control because peaceful people don’t want to be. And all well paid attorneys drink the same kool-aid fed to them by experienced attorneys…plus the attorneys give themselves bend the interpretation of the law to defend criminal behavior. Just pay me and I have to defend you to the best of my ability using the law.