FL wants more child labor

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• cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  European here: WTF?

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  • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Please send help

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    • Aux@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No. You elected this shit on your own. Play stupid games - win stupid prizes.

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  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Keep protesting American products please. It actually will help. If trump is losing the US money, he will be reigned in.

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    • Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But will the reining in end the reign?

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    • GroundedGator@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It might rein him in on tariffs and attempted land theft but it is unlikely to continue past that. Though I do believe that the boycott of American made may be longer lasting than those threats and as an American I actually appreciate those boycotts. Those in power need to understand what isolationism actually means.

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    • Olhonestjim@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Seconded. Do not buy our products. Build your militaries, sad to say. Save your holidays for better nations.

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  • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is what happens when your government loves business more than people. Do not feed the corporations. They will do this to you too.

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  • floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Then you should remember the rise of fascism pretty clearly. That is “what the fuck”

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    • cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Just a quick question: do people above the age of 17 not get guaranteed meal breaks?

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  • InvertedParallax@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The south came back in overtime to win the civil war.

    The country is gone, save yourselves.

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    • el_muerte@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      General Sherman’s biggest mistake was stopping the push before reaching the ocean.

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  • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ftfy: WTFL

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• RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why the hell would you want children working overnight on school nights?

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  • Iamsqueegee@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Worst thing a fruit picker can learn is that they don’t have to be a fruit picker.” - Big Fruit

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    • Arbiter@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Even worse, that they’re the ones generating the money.

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  • athairmor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So they drop/fail out of school. An uneducated labor force is a cheap labor force.

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    • singletona@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      An Uneducated Labor Force also ensure those laborers can’t compete for better positions, or demand better conditions.

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    • mrbeano@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And a fantastic, “ask no questions” kind of military force

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    • orbitz@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Also they don’t get taught critical thinking skills to understand why things are the way they are and easier to manipulate. That said my understanding of the general US education system is that it doesn’t teach that (or much of it) anyways.

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  • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Imagine the kids get smart and start thinking on their own as adults. They would no longer vote Rep. Imagine that!

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  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’ll cause them to drop out and become permanent cheap labor that can be exploited due to not having a highschool diploma.

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  • Fermion@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They already thought of that. The department of education has already been dismantled. If there are no school nights there’s no problem, right?

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  • floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not just children. Anyone who isn’t rich, white, cis, straight, and Christian. If you’re not rich, then you must be a piece of shit, and you deserve nothing, not even the most basic human dignity.

    Endnote 2: White Fascism

    Endnote 3: The Origins of Conservatism

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  • ammonium@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why the hell would you want children working overnight on school nights? FTFY

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  • coacoamelky@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Florida does not care about education

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  • Faith_Bubbles@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    the fine for truancy can range from $250 to as much as $500
    local truancy officers who have the authority to arrest habitually truant youths

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truancy#United_States

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    • crusa187@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Private prison corpos have to get them some too

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  • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So that only the children of rich patterns can get a good education.

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  • Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Haven’t you heard? The DOE is dead. No more pesky school to get in the way of these children’s productive hours! Ah, utopia at last.

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  • emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    These kids already have jobs, they dont even need school. The ones with rich parents will still learn how to fuck everyone else over in their private schools, dont worry.

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• peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh. Ok, Florida, see you guys are really taking the dystopia thing pretty damn seriously

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  • pancakes@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They watched cyberpunk: edgerunners and got really inspired by the wrong things.

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  • nectar45@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Have you seen minecraft? Children YEARN for the mines!

    /s

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  • y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They’ve been the testing ground for every stupid new fascist idea for a while now.

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• regrub@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Image

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  • perviouslyiner@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Legoland theme park used to have a joke sign: “Turning minors into miners” at the toy mine exhibit.

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    • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Fun fact, if you have a photo it might be the only one out there

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• MetalMachine@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m not against letting teenagers work as long as there are protections. Removing guaranteed meals and overnight work? Nah.

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  • SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If they’re removing these protections for teens what are they doing to the rights of adult employees?

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    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Employees in Florida (and most states, like ~40 states) have no laws that require breaks. Many states do/did require that minors get them though

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    • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Florida infamously removed water break regulations. In a state the military regularly suspends training due to the heat index. I’m starting to get the idea that these aren’t good people.

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  • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    All workers should have a guaranteed meal break on any shift that takes up 6 hours or more of their day, commute included. The economy is supposed to work for us, not exploit us.

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• GoodOleAmerika@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Dodged the bullet by being born in the 80s. We played Atari and Nintendo after school, then bicycle patrol around neighborhood

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  • IMALlama@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was born in the 80s. I had a paper route at 13 so I could buy an OG PlayStation. Definitely not crazy shift work, but I wonder how a 13 year old could find employment for some spending money these days.

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  • myrrh@ttrpg.network ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    …born in the seventies, i was working by fifth grade and overnight by high school; longest shift i ever pulled was twenty-six hours without a break…

    …kids born in the eighties enjoyed nineties child labor laws, which were kind of a mixed blessing: less exploitation but also less opportunities to earn money…

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    • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Kids shouldn’t have to be earning money. We are more than a cog in some capitalist’s machine. Productivity has massively increased and instead of demanding the gains of that increase we bemoan the loss of “opportunities”.

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    • Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You poor thing

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    • el_muerte@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      … is this a boast or a cautionary tale? I really can’t tell…

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• fox2263@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  lol not even allowed a meal break. Can’t keep them healthy and energised for the job! 🤣

  What a shithole America is becoming

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  • tacobellhop@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    America requires immigrants to function and has for always 250 years.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well, now we don’t. Just need a lot of young pregnant women giving us our next generation of labor au naturale

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• Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So they gonna get the right to vote? Cause if they are going to be treated as adult they should get vote.

  Let’s also decrease liquor and smokes to 8 while we are at it.

  Also remove child support cause they are grown up to get their own jobs and health insurance.

  /s

  f these people.

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  • danciestlobster@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Health insurance? You think these kids are getting health insurance???

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    • Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Laughs in capitalism

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• SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The US is regressing more and more. I refuse to call it a first world country at this point.

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  • Microw@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “First world” etc are political terms relating to Cold War allegiance.

    What you mean is “developed country” and there are good arguments that the US has never fully fitted that label. You’d have people coming from “developing countries” to the US and realize that infrastructure and social security there is way worse than in their home country.

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    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, exactly. First world was allied with the US. Second world was allied with the soviets. Third world was basically everyone else, and was largely considered irrelevant to the Cold War. That’s why “third world” became a signifier of undeveloped countries; If a country wasn’t part of the Cold War, it was likely because they didn’t have enough developed resources or manpower to be considered a war asset. If they were developed enough to contribute, one of the two sides would have already been working on recruiting them to the war.

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    • minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes but the “American Dream” was never that. It was always to get richer than everyone else and so I can just say fuck 'em to the plight of the rest. Or in alternative terms, it only concerns me when it actually directly affects me.

      I believe the results of the last election and the ensuing “executive orders” actions are direct proof of that. Also it was proof of the large stupidity of the masses, something the Covid years exposed, but was directly proved in the election results. It was just a matter of time before a high level professional conman was so brazen about it.

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  • P1nkman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    USA is a third world country with a Gucci belt.

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    • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      With fake timbs

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• peetabix@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sorry kids, you’re not old enough for a lunch break.

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• Kalon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I imagine this will work well with the school so prison pipeline.

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• Sakprosa@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Deport workers and fill their positions with literal children. That’s an insane proposition that will only hurt the vulnerable and favour those willing to use them…

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• Ghosthacked@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Conservative agenda:

  Put young males to work until they’re old enough to enlist.

  Get young girls married and popping out babies as young as possible

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• SebaDC@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  These will be a majority of white kids, right? Riiiight?

  Ducking dystopia.

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• JustARegularNerd@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Here I was thinking this was satire. Then I actually searched it up (source: CNN) and wtf?!

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• BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That guaranteed meal break should be extended, not rolled back. After 4 hours every worker should have a 30 minute break to eat. It’s not just humane, it’s common sense that fed people work better. Even if you exclude the 30 minutes from their hours, which I bet was already what was going on.

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• reddit_sux@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Cool so USA is importing everything I had exported to third world countries.

  • Authoritarian dictatorial leadership ✔️
  • Child exploiting sweatshop ✔️

  What’s next USA?

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• Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We don’t want them getting spoiled on their graveyard shifts with meal breaks

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• KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Americans: End abortion!

  World: Oh, are you worried about what your gods might think?

  Americans: Huh? Nope. I just needs that there little fucker flippin’ muh burgers. I aint 'spected ta do it muhself.

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• Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is where calling universal school lunches privileged leads to

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• BowlingForBowls@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How absolutely ghoulish

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Guys who wrote this bill probably: “The children yearn for the mines.”

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• HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Jesus Chirst

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• kadotux@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Serious question: Is this satire?

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• qevlarr@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They yearn for the mines!

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• DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Reason number 11,462,821 why you can never, under any circumstances, trust conservatives with power.

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• Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No no, you don’t understand, the free market sets wages! If the boss can’t find workers at the rate they set then they have to raise wages …hire children!!

  🤮

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• 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  William Blake’s The Chimney Sweeper (1788) entered the chat

  When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry " 'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!" So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep.

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• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Florida is a land for the dying.

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• max@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is this the beginning of child slavery?

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