Flooding the labour market with child labour lowers the avarage wage
the kids don't study or study less trapping them in unspecialized low-wage jobs
kids are easier to abuse, to terrorize, to cheat on their pay, it's easier to make them work longer, more intesively or in dangerous contexteses, since they have a harder time understanding their situation because they lack life experience
working leaves them will less time to socialize, which gets exacherbated by alienation at work, which united with the above results in them growing up into socially isoleted and dumber adults, which results in a more violent and atomized society where the ruling class power is even more uncontested
@moffintosh @LupusGelupus@berserker.town
Oh look. Isn't it beautiful seing these kids socializing in the schools? And it will improve their job prospects too.
Wow... I am so happy they don't have the option to earn some money in a dangerous environment instead.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/12/20/child-labor-deaths-us-twenty-first-century/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/27/child-deaths-labor-department
And yeah I was bullied too from kindergarden to middle school, still better than fucking dying. And that's while not having addressed everything else I mentioned
@moffintosh @LupusGelupus@berserker.town
And I have been working for a few years (and obviously did some work as a kid), and I ain't dead either
@LukeAlmighty @LupusGelupus And many more kids went through school without bullying, which mind you, is still better than fucking dying or getting involved in an incident.
@moffintosh @LupusGelupus@berserker.town
Why do you keep on comparing earning some money for food with dying?
I know there is a stereotype of a lazy commie, but you're taking it to a whole new level.
the kids don't study or study less trapping them in unspecialized low-wage jobs
kids are easier to abuse, to terrorize, to cheat on their pay, it's easier to make them work longer, more intesively or in dangerous contexteses, since they have a harder time understanding their situation because they lack life experience
Given the ease of exploitability, capital will always push for more and give working people and their children a worse and worse contract over time, as we've seeing in the US in this year.
And given point 2, children won't organize, which easily allows to more easily cut on security and as such cause more deaths
@moffintosh @LupusGelupus@berserker.town
1) I have no idea how do you want to form an argument around "kids would have no negotiating power", while the alternative is to just send them to the prison for 9 years, where they have no negotiating power.
Giving them a choice will increase their freedom, no matter what path would they preffer.
2) There will always be minimum wage people. This way, they can start 9 years earlier. And that's better, then be in prison for 9 years, and then enjoy the new priviledged position of minimum wage job.
