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[-] winterwulf@lemm.ee 19 points 11 months ago

Land of the free my ass

[-] sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 11 months ago

They could have adrenal hypoplasia such that they never started puberty. Like that one guy who looks like a 6-year-old but is actually 30.

[-] Creddit@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

People offended just by looking at this picture out of context should really try explaining their preferred authoritarian social policy to a teenager who wants a part-time job but for whom some people would forbid them by penalty of the law.

Spoiler: They won't understand why you should have any authority over their body and time.

I don't understand why you should have that authority either. I mean, where does it end?

What are your criteria for exceptions? Shouldn't it be between the kid and their parents, and not you?

Are you imagining there is a parental figure with a bull whip for this kid in the back office and you want to outlaw physical abuse? There are already separate laws for that!

[-] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Why tf should a kid want to work? Why would you want a society to normalize a 14-year-old hustling and working after school? It's not authoritarian to protect children from parasitic businesses. Child-labor is illegal because at that stage a person has less emotional intelligence and rationality, they can more easily be taken advantage of and overworked, and won't understand their rights as a worker as well. You can't even sign a contract at 14 without a parent or guardian and you want them to be able to act at the whim of fast food managers?

Your argument is hardly one step away from the argument I see people trot out when defending child marriage.

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[-] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah, we tried to let people have the permission to do that, kids died.

Enough kids died that even America decided we needed to make laws against it, and we love exploiting the under class people

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[-] Numberone@startrek.website 18 points 11 months ago

That's because it's Culvers. Jokes on ya'll, their recruiting literature make it clear that workers are family. As long as they're not employees it's all good!

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[-] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 17 points 11 months ago

In the land of the "they were really better off as slaves!".

[-] linuxdweeb@lemm.ee 15 points 11 months ago

This is a pretty funny image because the kid looks like they're 8 and in full uniform, but there's no way to know their age from this picture. They could be like 14, and a part time job at that age (or a bit younger) isn't weird.

What's weird and, frankly, extremely fucked up is some internet weirdo taking creepshots of a minor and posting it on Lemmy. What the fuck is wrong with you, OP? How would you feel if someone was posting pics like this of your kid on the internet?

[-] Whattrees 12 points 11 months ago

There's no way you're serious, right?... Right?

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[-] Hikermick@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

When I was that age I was mowing lawns to pay for my video arcade habit. This is probably safer

[-] UnHidden@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago
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[-] nascent@lemm.ee 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Thirteen year olds working in the Netherlands don't qualify for minimum wage- "13: (The minimum age of employment under the supervision and with no guarantee of a minimum wage.)". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_working_age

[-] Delphia@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Yeah this is so much worse than 5yo kids working in coal mines a hundred years ago.

Sure its not exactly ideal, but if this is a kid whose parents own the franchise and he is legally working and being paid at the family business its better than him being left at home on the xbox.

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