The children like to work actually, and they get benefits like affording housing and food. If it weren’t for child labor they’d just laze about all day starving in the streets for a lack of will to sustain themselves.
Heartwarming
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untorquer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 day ago
nice one, can almost smell Florida in this sentence
untorquer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
🤣 I’m so glad i don’t know that smell.
DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
The children, they yearn for the factories.
untorquer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s the tiny hands, it gives them a sense of pride in their work that they have an edge on adults.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 day ago
What the actual… for a moment I thought you maybe were trying - and failing - to be sarcastic - but this reads too much like a real opinion. A real clueless shitbag opinion.
untorquer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Holy shit it’s wooshing still, i really tried. It’s parroting the pragerU statements on chattle slavery but transposing to child labor. Or was it TPUSA? idk.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
They missed the hashtag #girlboss
somethingsomethingidk@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I mean, it looks like she still has all her fingers. Idk what the big deal is…
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 day ago
Came here to say this. Kids were employed because A) it was easier to exploit them and B) they were simply smaller and could get into the corners of those big machines with rattling open cogs & chains etc.
The cynicism behind such decisions is heartbreaking. I mean even back then they could have designed the machines so that an adult could oil them while they’re running. I guess nobody ever thought of it.
And just let me add:
This is why we have socialism. Without it, who knows where our industrialised societies would be now. Even the most conservative or neoliberal shitbag massively benefits from what they fought for 100-200 years ago.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They’re giving her career education. If anything, she should be paying them!
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
She probably loves to work like this, who are we to be taking that away from children?
13igTyme@piefed.social 1 day ago
Child labor never ended. Children of immigrants are often in the fields for the last several decades. Plus now the laws are being reversed for white kids.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 day ago
Those orphans aren’t going to crush themselves.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The machine must be kept running!
roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And then the GOP would find a way to shut the paper down for publishing the photo.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m going to sue you for one billion dollars over that comment!
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Such entrepreneurial spirit! Something something hustle culture…
Smeagol666@crazypeople.online 1 day ago
Right? Every fucking idiotic story on “mainstream media” about some Girlscout selling enough cookies so her mother can get a kidney transplant makes me want to fucking vomit. I have no hope for this shithole of a country we live in.