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When they're struggling to eat two meals a day and threatened with homelessness, they'll work and job they're given, no matter how awful.
You think the parents of yesteryear wanted to send their kids off to the workhouses, when they knew an education would be better for them, and safer than the workshops?
They didn't have a choice, because that's how their society was structured.
The USA is regressing in many small ways that taken together gave a big impact, it's not crazy to think that they're reaching a point where many families will be forced to have their kids work to make ends meet.
The kids aren't privileged, they don't have a choice, that's the point. If they choose not to work because they're moody teens, then they'll starve. That won't happen.
You say that like teens have the willpower and emotional control to do any of this. Those teens will absolutely walk off jobs because somebody looked at them funny, and now they have beef. And it won't be until after they get into a fist fight and get fired that they'll realise that was a mistake. Teenagers aren't methodical plotting analysts that understand what they're doing. Their body is going through hormonal changes, and it affects them all differently. There is no plan with them. The plan is they saw another kid give them the finger and now they're about to come to blows. The fact that they're wearing work uniforms while doing it isn't part of the plan.