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FL wants more child labor (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

Because the existing workforce keeps getting deported.

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[-] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 276 points 1 month ago
[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 133 points 1 month ago

Keep protesting American products please. It actually will help. If trump is losing the US money, he will be reigned in.

[-] Flamekebab@piefed.social 29 points 1 month ago

But will the reining in end the reign?

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[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago

This is what happens when your government loves business more than people. Do not feed the corporations. They will do this to you too.

[-] floo@retrolemmy.com 24 points 1 month ago

Then you should remember the rise of fascism pretty clearly. That is “what the fuck”

[-] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 42 points 1 month ago

Just a quick question: do people above the age of 17 not get guaranteed meal breaks?

[-] Zorsith 43 points 1 month ago

No. Or any other kind of break. Also benefits are determined by part time vs full time, which itself is generally determined be working either less than 40 hours a week, or 40+. In other words part time is generally 39.99999 hours a week.

[-] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 1 month ago

You wouldn't believe labour rights here in Germany. And yet, the work gets done.

[-] floo@retrolemmy.com 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, but your social safety nets are strong, and rich people and companies are highly taxed in order to fund those social safety nets. That makes any random worker far more motivated to go and do their job than if they were getting absolutely ass-fucked in 1 trillion different ways every hour of every day, like they are in the United States — purely in the name of prophet –, all while the propaganda tries to convince them and everyone else that’s because they are “weak“.

I suddenly have no difficulty understanding why the red October revolutionist didn’t try to “rehabilitate” the imperials, and just murdered the fucking a lot of them.

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[-] InputZero@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

I worked for a German company briefly. The pay was great and they literally wouldn't let me do overtime. Best job I've ever had.

[-] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 1 month ago

Come back! Germany will need loads of qualified workers in the coming years. There are 500 billion to be spent on infrastructure and the labor market is already quite tight. We will need people everywhere and in many places English-speaking colleagues are not a problem.

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[-] floo@retrolemmy.com 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

To add to the previous comment, no.

Any benefits above slavery have been hard-fought, and hard-won for nearly a century. Hell, even the concept of a “weekend“ didn’t exist until union workers protested to the point where they demanded two days off every week.

Never forget: anything you have, anything you enjoy, anything that makes your life better… Thousands and, possibly, hundreds of thousands of people had to fight (and die) for decades before they even got a fraction of what we have now. And it’s always the fascist that wanna take it away.

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[-] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 131 points 1 month ago

Why the hell would you want children working overnight on school nights?

[-] Iamsqueegee@sh.itjust.works 134 points 1 month ago

“Worst thing a fruit picker can learn is that they don’t have to be a fruit picker.” - Big Fruit

[-] Arbiter@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

Even worse, that they’re the ones generating the money.

[-] athairmor@lemmy.world 64 points 1 month ago

So they drop/fail out of school. An uneducated labor force is a cheap labor force.

[-] singletona@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago

An Uneducated Labor Force also ensure those laborers can't compete for better positions, or demand better conditions.

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[-] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

That is irrelevant because they are also removing schooling for the children that will be taking those jobs.

~Supposed to be read somewhat /s but also not really /s because that is the plan~

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[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 118 points 1 month ago

Oh. Ok, Florida, see you guys are really taking the dystopia thing pretty damn seriously

[-] pancakes@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 month ago

They watched cyberpunk: edgerunners and got really inspired by the wrong things.

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[-] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 68 points 1 month ago

I'm not against letting teenagers work as long as there are protections. Removing guaranteed meals and overnight work? Nah.

[-] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 41 points 1 month ago

If they’re removing these protections for teens what are they doing to the rights of adult employees?

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 23 points 1 month ago

Employees in Florida (and most states, like ~40 states) have no laws that require breaks. Many states do/did require that minors get them though

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[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

All workers should have a guaranteed meal break on any shift that takes up 6 hours or more of their day, commute included. The economy is supposed to work for us, not exploit us.

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 67 points 1 month ago

So they gonna get the right to vote? Cause if they are going to be treated as adult they should get vote.

Let's also decrease liquor and smokes to 8 while we are at it.

Also remove child support cause they are grown up to get their own jobs and health insurance.

/s

f these people.

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[-] fox2263@lemmy.world 65 points 1 month ago

lol not even allowed a meal break. Can’t keep them healthy and energised for the job! 🤣

What a shithole America is becoming

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[-] GoodOleAmerika@lemmy.world 64 points 1 month ago

Dodged the bullet by being born in the 80s. We played Atari and Nintendo after school, then bicycle patrol around neighborhood

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[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 54 points 1 month ago

The US is regressing more and more. I refuse to call it a first world country at this point.

[-] Microw@lemm.ee 33 points 1 month ago

"First world" etc are political terms relating to Cold War allegiance.

What you mean is "developed country" and there are good arguments that the US has never fully fitted that label. You'd have people coming from "developing countries" to the US and realize that infrastructure and social security there is way worse than in their home country.

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[-] peetabix@sh.itjust.works 48 points 1 month ago

Sorry kids, you're not old enough for a lunch break.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 22 points 1 month ago

Right? This is.... I never wanna hear "Won't someone think of the children" again after this shit

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[-] Kalon@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I imagine this will work well with the school to prison pipeline.

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[-] Sakprosa@lemm.ee 44 points 1 month ago

Deport workers and fill their positions with literal children. That’s an insane proposition that will only hurt the vulnerable and favour those willing to use them…

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[-] SebaDC@discuss.tchncs.de 42 points 1 month ago

These will be a majority of white kids, right? Riiiight?

Ducking dystopia.

[-] floo@retrolemmy.com 30 points 1 month ago

Oddly, it very well may be, considering that any “not white “people who show up to get job jobs will be deported just because they’re not white.

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[-] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 1 month ago

Here I was thinking this was satire. Then I actually searched it up (source: CNN) and wtf?!

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[-] Ghosthacked@lemm.ee 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Conservative agenda:

Put young males to work until they're old enough to enlist.

Get young girls married and popping out babies as young as possible.

Don't think they aren't eyeing up little 13 year olds.

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[-] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago

That guaranteed meal break should be extended, not rolled back. After 4 hours every worker should have a 30 minute break to eat. It's not just humane, it's common sense that fed people work better. Even if you exclude the 30 minutes from their hours, which I bet was already what was going on.

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[-] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Cool so USA is importing everything ~~I~~ it had exported to third world countries.

  • Authoritarian dictatorial leadership ✔️
  • Child exploiting sweatshop ✔️

What's next USA?

Edit: Came here to add

  • Detention without due process ✔️
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[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

We don’t want them getting spoiled on their graveyard shifts with meal breaks

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[-] KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 month ago

Americans: End abortion!

World: Oh, are you worried about what your gods might think?

Americans: Huh? Nope. I just needs that there little fucker flippin' muh burgers. I aint 'spected ta do it muhself.

[-] SnotFlickerman 27 points 1 month ago

Guys who wrote this bill probably: "The children yearn for the mines."

[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 month ago

This is where calling universal school lunches privileged leads to

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 23 points 1 month ago
[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 26 points 1 month ago
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[-] kadotux@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 month ago

Serious question: Is this satire?

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No, Ms Huckabee sanders already did this in '23 in ar- Kansas

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