Comment on A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US

• c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Do you think kids shouldn’t be allowed to work in any capacity? What if they are self employed? Is that wrong even if they want to?

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  • Deceptichum@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, and yes.

    I think children should be free to focus on more important things than working.

    Do you think we should send the kids back to the mines? Some of them might prefer to be out of school.

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    • _cnt0@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • Deceptichum@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They wouldn’t call them minors if they didn’t like it.

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      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Based and perfect-response-pilled

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    • tillary@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think there’s a line somewhere and for me the line is whether the job is suitable for children. Like, doing chores around the house or on your grandparents’ farm. Paper route riding a bike. I worked summers at a carnival, and at a pool when I was a bit older. Low physical labor, low responsibility, low customer interaction, family friendly environments. You’re right it should never interfere with education.

      If I saw a kid at the register of a fast food place or a store, I would turn around immediately and never return. Just leaves a bad taste in one’s mouth.

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    • grff@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Your example is very extreme. Having an after school part time job as you’re growing up will prepare you for quite a bit, and set us apart from our peers that didn’t work, and instead wasted their days after school or on the weekends. I take it you never worked growing up ? It’s building essential life skills, not inhaling noxious fumes working 16 hr days in mines, this isn’t the 1800’s. I loved flipping burgers and making a paycheck at 15

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      • BossDj@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I wasn’t sure where I stood on this and read a lot of comments.

        One thing that seems common is that many of those who worked young seem to think it made them better than the other kids somehow. They “wasted” their summer, while you built “essential life skills” unlike the person you’re replying to, who did not? Are you still “set apart” from the person you replied to?

        I might think getting thrown into the system at a younger age is the real waste of life. I’ve had a job since I was 15, but I really don’t think it made me better than anyone.

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      • SeducingCamel@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If by wasted days you mean cherished childhood memories then sure

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    • roscoe@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I had a paper route when I was 12.

      The work itself wasn’t important but learning responsibility and the value of money was important.

      It was the first time I did anything completely on my own without being directed in some way by a parent, teacher, coach, etc. Without that job and after-school/summer jobs I had when I was older there is a good chance I would have made poor financial decisions in early adulthood.

      With 18 year-olds getting credit cards shoved in their face the day they show up for orientation, after probably signing up for college loans, it’s probably a good idea for them to have earned money on their own for a while.

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      • grff@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t understand the people down voting you. Having a job growing up taught me a lot of responsibility and how to manage my own money and act in a professional environment. Invaluable skills that you wouldn’t get anywhere else, certainly not school

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    • ElBarto@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do you think we should send the kids back to the mines?

      Well, I’m not fucking going down there.

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    • Soulg@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      First of all, I generally agree with you that child labor such as in the OP is bad.

      That being said, responding to people who had positive experiences with it in their own lives by jumping directly to sending then to the mines is absolutely fucking insane. They are not the same thing.

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    • c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think children should be free to focus on more important things than working.

      “Freedom” to do what you want them to and nothing more, not even to earn it over summer break or learn the value of money.

      Fuck 'em, just wait until they get out of highschool at 18 before they ever even see real money and have no idea how any of it works, who the predators are, and what the risk is.

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      • Esqplorer@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Fuck 'em, just wait until they get out of highschool at 18 before they ever even see real money and have no idea how any of it works, who the predators are, and what the risk is.

        Why is this worse than the literal same thing at a younger age?

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      • saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They completely missed an entire part of my initial comment that started this tangent.

        Literally, it was all my idea and what I wanted to do.

        “Children should be free to focus on things.”

        12 year old me: “Cool! I want to work at the local fish and chip store and they already said it’s okay, pleeeeease?.”

        “NO!!!”

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    • saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sometimes I read comments online and initially think they’re sarcastic but then realise the person’s serious and flexing way above their capacity, usually by straw manning. And here’s one of those moments…

      Do you think we should send the kids back to the mines?

      favepalm

      About as much as you think the police should be shutting down lemonade stands.

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