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[-] ThePantser@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago

If you are an Indiana parent and allow your child to work a job that follows the new rules and doesn't have the kids best interest in mind then you are a bad parent. Educate your kids about what the job should be offering and you as the parent can restrict their hours.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 69 points 1 year ago

Educate your kids about what the job should be offering and you as the parent can restrict their hours.

Sure, but the government taking away abortion rights and forcing these unqualified people to be parents while forcing these kids to work, sure sounds like they're creating a slave class.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 39 points 1 year ago

Stop saying the quiet part out loud. Next, you'll be railing against prison labor, asking that we treat prisoners as people.

It's sarcasm, shut up.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

It's sarcasm, shut up

Babe wake up, new /s tag dropped

[-] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 2 points 1 year ago

issu

I like it, seems cracked honestly because I can mark stuff and not need a shower after

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago

A mod removed one of my comments because they didn't know what that meant. I'm a bit defensive after.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Unfunny people will be the death of us all, and I'm not even joking.

[-] rocket_dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago

Indiana parents are gonna accuse you of being a filthy communist if they catch you talking about workers rights like that.

The CEO needs his workers to be young, cheap, and completely subservient if he wants to buy that brand new fourth backup superyacht.

[-] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

Theres parents that snatch anything their teen kids make as "rent" then kick them out at 18 with nothing. They even try to make them pay back the cost of raising them.

[-] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 points 1 year ago

As they said, bad parents.

[-] halykthered@lemmy.ml 57 points 1 year ago

There's gunna be some kids from some desperate situations, just trying to make money for their destitute families for any number of reasons.

The 14 year old, overworked and tired, will be called into the managers office.

"We've noticed you've been working really hard. You know, there's a promotion on offer. Comes with a substantial pay increase, might be able to help out mom and dad." The manager walks around behind them.

"We have lots of competition here, though." The door locks, the child feels hands on their shoulders.

"We need to see what you're willing to do to come out ahead."

If situations like this happens with adults, it will absolutely happen with children.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago

Hoosier here. We're trying to fix it. But guess which party has had a supermajority in state government for decades?

[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

Republicans are racing to see who can make their state into a 3rd world country first.

[-] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Republicans are racing to see how many different ways they can legalize pedophilia.

[-] Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

A lot of states would already be classified as third world. Take away the funding from blue states and they go straight to undeveloped

[-] AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Which ones? I live in a low income, rural area in a red state. It is nothing like a 3rd world country, just not even remotely close. Yet.

[-] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 year ago

Considering all these changes have been since 2019, seems like they're actually successfully making it worse with each passing year.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

You're not wrong.

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Is it those damned Greens?

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Wrong Christmas color.

[-] 5in1k@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Every time I go through Indiana it feels like a slow motion apocalypse is happening there. I always start looking for the Stacks from Ready Player One.

[-] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 36 points 1 year ago

The children yearn for the mines.

[-] the_q@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

*corn and soy fields

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

Just wait until they expand this again, permitting kids 12 and up to do sex work...

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 1 year ago

I read about a (right wing, religious) cult leader who said that menstruation is the signal that a female is ready for breeding. You're not at all wrong.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

If it was good enough for the bronze age Israelites, it's good enough for us!

[-] jumjummy@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

What’s depressing is that I initially read this as “India is a great place to hire child labor”, thought damn that sucks, then realized it said “Indiana”. Not even surprised anymore tbh.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

The children yearn for the mines!

[-] JoYo@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

they really do.

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

They sink and sink and sink and STILL refuse to vote in their best interests.
The lazier and angrier, the more ignorant they seem to become, and the easier it is to exploit them for life, they have less value as individuals, work MORE and LONGER for less and less, sliding back to the Middle Ages and they are the stupid, ignorant, disposable peasants.

[-] diffusive@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Hey in the middle age people weren’t working that much… more first Industrial Revolution 🙂

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