This is what they want for me, you, and our children and wouldn’t hesitate a second to do it again provided the line goes up

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Why don’t we pity adults in the same situation?

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We do.

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This is reductive and deflective. We do, one does not come at the price of the other. But most people, and science, agree that kids are worse off in that situation.

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What are you talking about? Of course we do, all the time.

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My 13 year old kid whines when I maker her clean up her dishes

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I get what you’re saying but it is unrealistic in this society. Many industries opt to replace their workers with automated systems. Perhaps this same level of greed has been redirected into newer unregulated ways.

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You do realize several plants in the US have already been caught using child labor, right?

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Now its time to compare several to the national total. You did say the US right?

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Wait… just to be clear, is your argument ‘because only a few plants have been caught doing it, that means no other companies will?’

I want to be sure I have that right before I reply.

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K, so pulling this thread, if children have no value as laborers in the future dystopia no one but the oligarchs wants, what would their for-profit role be? Societal larvae destined to be future laborers with adult human skills not easily automated? In the meantime, how would they ‘earn their keep’ so-to-speak?

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Are they automating their jobs away to let the rest of humanity live lives of joyous leisure, or will those non-owners who no longer provide utility to the owners just be starved to death?

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Child labor is used all around the world still. Just have to loosen laws a bit and make people poor enough to accept low wages, then it will be (more) of a thing in the US too. Below-living wage is cheaper than automating for many tasks; doesn’t require the rich to risk as much capital either.

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I agree with that.

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This is the “great” MAGA wants again.

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Stop showing this shit, Republicans can only get so hard…

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Sorry, couldn’t tell…

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