• Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works
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    13 days ago

    Voting Republican has consequences.

    If you think your kids hated you before, let’s see how they like you now.

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      You see, teens aren’t people. They’re animals owned by their parents. So some of the money goes to animal care costs.

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      Meanwhile, the additional costs spared and their consequences for livehood:

      If you’re a normal/poor person: scraping by -> can’t even live paycheck to paycheck anymore

      If you’re somewhat affluent: okay -> scraping by

      If you’re a billionnaire: excellent -> excellent (nothing changes)

      To be part of the 1%, in the United States you’ll need about $USD 6 million. Though living off from money only (i.e. without wage labour) is already “achievable” by $2 million, you then make about $100k a year with a 5% interest if in stocks.

      All ye who are not part of the 1%, are the proletariat. Ye who depend on the oligarch have nothing to lose, but a world to gain.

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    Jane Raybauld, a Democrat, pushed for this because her family owns grocery stores that employ minors. She’s a piece of shit.

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    Like I said in another thread, this has been the case in the Netherlands for at least since the eighties (€4,32 an hour if you’re 15, still below €10 if you’re 19) . And employers abuse the shit out of it, hiring young people as cheap labour and trying to get rid of them before they turn 21.

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      Wtf, only 30% of the minimum wage for being 15? What exactly is the company supposed to do with the other 70% to justify that?

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        The justification once was that young people couldn’t get a job if someone more experienced would get the same pay.

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    Children working for low wages: truly a show of a thriving state and a Great America /s

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    Meanwhile, when I was a teen I had to pay bills and rent, and I was paid MUCH MORE than kids are today (inflation).

    But fuck teens, right? Oh, and you’re drafted womp womp