• TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
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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