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Times change. I was running a forklift at 14 and working construction at 16. Society has decided that it isn't the way it wants things to happen anymore.
I imagine you are reading more stories because the economic downturn has pushed more families to do this.
I guess the point I'm trying to make is that teenagers have always been working this isn't a new phenomenon that has just now started to happen regardless of how many teenagers are working even if that number has increased.
I've seen some legislation in recent years where they dropped the minimum wage to work down which I don't agree with but other than that where's the problem here that's what I'm asking?
Moral ought from an is
"People have always kept slaves, so there's nothing wrong with slavery." The sentiment of people like you a couple of hundred years ago.
Ever heard of a false equivalency? Because your above statement is a text book definition.
Also go fuck yourself for inferring that I somehow support slavery and for comparing legally employing teenagers and compensating them for their labor to buying, selling and torturing human beings and making them work for free.
(I understand that the company in the post was illegally employing underage migrants. I'm making a general statement concerning the entire teenage work force in American.)
There's nothing wrong with employing teens within a set of standards and reason.