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[-] ThePantser@lemmy.world 70 points 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago

It's sarcasm, shut up

Babe wake up, new /s tag dropped

[-] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 2 points 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago

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

[-] rocket_dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago

As they said, bad parents.

[-] halykthered@lemmy.ml 57 points 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago

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

[-] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months 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 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago

You're not wrong.

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Is it those damned Greens?

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Wrong Christmas color.

[-] 5in1k@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months 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 2 months ago

The children yearn for the mines.

[-] the_q@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

*corn and soy fields

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

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

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 2 months 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 2 months ago

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

[-] jumjummy@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months 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 2 months ago

The children yearn for the mines!

[-] JoYo@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

they really do.

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months 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 2 months ago

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

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