• Huckledebuck@sh.itjust.works
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    Going to school is their job. Telling kids to get a job when they need to be focusing on school is beyond scummy. What a douce!

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    Before I was even 13 years old, I was picking berries in the field, before child labor laws that precluded that.

    “Back in my day I ate shit so you can too” is never a good argument for anything. That line of thinking just justifies societal regression. We want our children to have it easier, not replicate our same struggles over and over again. Boomer worldviews need to die.

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      He was 12 in 1980, when minimum wage was $3.10, which looks like about the equivalent of 12 bucks today. Wanna take bets on whether this asshole is for or against a minimum wage increase?

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      Children should have opportunities to learn work skills. They shouldn’t have to rely on that to eat. Pricks

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      Before I was even 13 years old, I was picking berries in the field, before child labor laws that precluded that.

      Parents in former USSR countries think like that

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    He added, “I mean, how many people got their start in fast-food restaurants when they were kids, versus just giving a blanket rule that gives all kids lunches in high school who are capable of going out and actually getting a job and doing something that makes them have value, thinking about their future instead of thinking about how they’re going to sponge out the government when they don’t need to.”

    Fucking toddlers sponging off the government.

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      and care to realize that some things aren’t options for everyone. The ones struggling with food insecurity… ain’t the ones with parents that have an easy time finding transportation and ability to get them to work… Not to mention the general fact that if we increase the amount of people hunting the jobs that don’t need education/experience… the openings dry up.

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        Nevermind that part time jobs after school for kids was always about learning how to work a job and earn some spending money, not fucking feed themselves because the system is broken.

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    Even in the reddest of red states, a first grader isn’t going to be working at McDonalds. They wouldn’t even be able to understand how even if they were tall enough to reach anything there, which they aren’t.

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      Well they can starve until they grow up enough. If god meant for kids to have food, he would have made it grow on trees!