- By “The US” they mean Republicans.
- By “acute strain” they mean that the balance of power doesn’t utterly favor capital over labor.
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There’s no labor shortage, there’s a livable wage shortage
Kids can be paid less, some tycoon somewhere probably…
Republicans constantly pulling humanity backwards. Child labor!?! WHAT? It’s never enough for these greedy pigs. Now they want to profit from stealing childhood from kids. So sick and utterly depraved!
All the while businesses are making record profits…
I recently produced a radio drama on what life was life before we had child labor laws, and how they came about. If you’re interested, it’s called “Florence Kelley, The Children’s Champion.”
Anything to avoid paying a living wage holy shit
First they loosen the restriction OF work and next they’ll tighten the restriction TO work. Guess what kids in juvenile hall gonna be doing soon.
Cotton farming?
What’s with the bs headlines?? there is no “may be”, they already did
Soon kids will get cigars, whiskey and married at 13 again.
“They yearn for the mines, obviously. Why do you think the kids play so much Minecraft?” -Some Republican, probably-
I guess they wanted to keep the suffering and exploitation local too
Isnt the whole point of tarrifs to make sure goods meet our very strict labour laws? :(
Already happening.
What… young, nearly adult folks want to get a paycheck, too. At 16 I used to make 450$ a week cutting grass, ain’t nothing wrong with kids earning a few bucks.
These kids aren’t forced labor, I wasn’t, but I did live like a king at 16.
They sure are trying to bring back the 1890s.
I thought they’d stop at the 1930s, but it seems that your’re plunging into the depth of history much faster than expected. You guys ought to sharpen your stone carving skills at this rate.
They aren’t trying, they’re succeeding.
A good part of the Southern US economy was originally based on slave labour and since its abolition the business culture and mentality never moved on from it. They’ve just found new ways to have cheap labour that they can exploit to different levels. Immigrants, “unskilled” workers, rented prison labour… Now that the immigrant workers are being kicked out, they’re looking for replacements to fill the gap.
Pay more. It’s that simple. They’re greedy.
