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[-] perestroika@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Summary of what I understood:

  • Florida work force: 27% born in foreign countries
  • Florida farm workers: 60% born in foreign countries
  • Florida state: eager to persecute immigrants

Proposal:

  • allow child labour for unlimited hours, if home schooled or distance learning
  • allow 30 hours per week during study sessions
  • allow 6 days of consecutive work
  • allow work during school hours
  • allow early and late work, even if school next day
  • allow more than 8 hours per day, even if school next day

That seems 19th century stuff. Back then, in the bad old times, anarchists shot politcians and workers had street battles with cops over this kind of minor issues.

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

You know those kids are pretty small as well, I'm sure they can work with chimeys a lot better than an adult.

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[-] Jhex@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

And remember the follow up... If it's legal for kids to work overnight with no breaks, it'll soon be mandatory or you'd lose whatever social security survives...

And then it'll just be mandatory because there is no social security safety net and you are now officially an indentured servant of the Florida kingdom

[-] mhague@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

"People don't want to work anymore." in one hand. "Children can help fix the labor shortage." in the other.

Just ways to beat people into submission with whatever words sound good in the moment.

[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago
[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

No one wants to work. It's true. We are all forced to work and the people who don't see this are also the ones at the top who don't do actual work.

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 points 2 weeks ago

Back when TED Talks were all decent and not a money grab, I saw one presenter talk about the coming automation and the need for economic safety nets, and he brought up a good point. Man has tried to minimize work ever since the beginning, but just as we get to a point where most people could eliminate it altogether, we want to hold onto that last little bit. Some good reasons, but most are centered around the need for income and the need for identity, which aren't great ones. He mentioned the phrase "working for a living", which can also be termed "having to work to be alive", both in the necessity of income and in the Puritan way of seeing people that don't have to work hard as worthless.

People should be able to work on things for pleasure or creation or even some other type of fulfillment, but not because without that work they aren't people. Yet that's how society views work. "What do you do" is a much more common casual intro than "what are you interested in". And there are arguments about how we can even get to a point like that, if such a utopia is just that, a fantasy. But we sure aren't trying hard to put systems in place to help us get there, at least not the ones that help the people who are hurt by things like automation (which is its own debate, of course).

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

"nobody wants to work"

True, that's why you have to pay them to get them to do it.

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago

"People don't want to work anymore [under these conditions and for this pay]"

Children though have less of an insight they're being screwed over, and if the laws and parents match up, they have no say anyway.

[-] crank0271@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Kids would yearn for the mines if only they were forced to experience them.

[-] brightandshinyobject@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Spoiler alert, nobody ever wanted to work, that's why you have to pay us.

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I mean coincidentally they shut down the department of education. Kinda seems like a convenient time to put kids back to work.

[-] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Next; children leaving education at 10 to start working.

[-] LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Insane.? Yes. Shocking? No. Escalating? Yes. They've been doing this for decades with prison labor and youth "education" programs. Of course their gonna expand it under the Milkshake Nazis.

It's why every leftist with a brain has been shouting for decades against "work programs" to get food stamps and juvenile detention programs with private prisons. They build the structures for this to make is much easier for the population to accept.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

The children yearn for the mines!

[-] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

It's what Minecraft was made for, training.

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

This is targeting the children of the poor.

[-] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Of course it is, same as it ever was. Want to help your parents, work overnight at the slaughter factory, sleep in school and quit your extracurriculars. Lose a finger, well they followed Florida safety laws use your health insurance.

[-] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago

Only in Florida would someone have read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and thought, "this is the family dynamic we need to bring back to working class Americans".

[-] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

This is the type of Family Values I VOTED for!

-Republicans attacking Trans People for being Inappropriate for Kids

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

St. Augustine, 2027

(Yes the 'women' in the picture are children)

Jacksonville:

[-] SSNs4evr@leminal.space 2 points 2 weeks ago

Well, this is America, and parents are free to make those kind of choices. My children will not be working those fields (especially considering they're in VA). As always, the poor and their children will be the most exploited in this endeavor, but considering these same people are orange voters, I really only feel bad for the children.

"The beatings will continue, until morale improves."

Or the poor stop letting themselves be taken advantage of, and the not so poor, but poorly educated or informed, graduate to better informing themselves. All the information is available out there. People simply need to open their eyes and consume it, instead of being told what to think from a talking head on tv.

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[-] sarcasticsunrise@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I am so fucking glad that fate lifted me from out of my shit hole home state to Chicago 15 years ago. I count my lucky stars everyday and night. I hope this shit inspires my younger brother and his fiancee to think of the future of my 3 year old nephew and get the hell outta there, but my brother is employed by the VA, so no telling how long he'll have the financial meane to do so even if he wanted

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