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
And just like the guard on a a meat grinding machine at a packing plant, the law doesn’t stop them from sucking in minors
I’d rather burn every city to the fucking ground than rob any of our children of their childhood. Catch my kids standing outside with the molotovs.
Catch my kids standing outside with the molotovs.
I can assure you they were doing no such thing. They were dogsitting for me. And reading white-Jesus books.
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.
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?
You do realize several plants in the US have already been caught using child labor, right?
Now its time to compare several to the national total. You did say the US right?
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.
Orphan grinding machine goes brrrr…
Most of human history was like this. The 50 year period after WWII is the aberration. If we don’t fight the oligarchs this is what they will reduce us to.
Most of human history…hmm checks notes… since the invention of capitalism about 400 years ago, yes.
Even serfs under feudal lords had significantly more free time and while basic child labor was common, it was mostly in family run farms.
Pre-industrial societies still expected children to work from young ages. And they would often switch to adult labour in their early teens.
