Because the existing workforce keeps getting deported.
Oh. Ok, Florida, see you guys are really taking the dystopia thing pretty damn seriously
They watched cyberpunk: edgerunners and got really inspired by the wrong things.
Have you seen minecraft? Children YEARN for the mines!
/s
They’ve been the testing ground for every stupid new fascist idea for a while now.
lol not even allowed a meal break. Can’t keep them healthy and energised for the job! 🤣
What a shithole America is becoming
America requires immigrants to function and has for almost 250 years.
Well, now we don’t. Just need a lot of young pregnant women giving us our next generation of labor au naturale
Well they need flock cameras and palantir drones over every neighborhood in the country to enforce their visions.
Freedom of assembly. In private. Is the only shovel to dig out.
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Unfortunately, modern cars will track you even if you block the plate. They all have cell connections nowadays for things like firmware updates and manufacturer tracking. You should assume that every single thing you do in your car is recorded and sent straight back to the manufacturer. Car companies have shifted their priorities towards selling data, not just cars.
If you go to a rally, don’t drive, and don’t take public transit because they all have cameras in the cabins. Ride a bike, walk, use a motorcycle, or basically anything besides a car or public transport.
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Yeah the flocks run on solar too
Conservative agenda:
Put young males to work until they’re old enough to enlist.
Get young girls married and popping out babies as young as possible.
Don’t think they aren’t eyeing up little 13 year olds.
Yeah - see the thing about the evil trans pedos that totally exist and are kidnapping children to chop their penises off - they just aren’t following the rules for sex with children. It’s gotta be between an adult man and a young girl he can groom and abuse into being a perfect child-wife-slave forever (ever notice the baby voice fundie women like the Duggers tend to have?)
Economically, socially, spirituality (even if you divorce the 45 that groomed you into getting hitched at 18 - Jesus hated divorce!) dependent. Of course, once he takes an interest in that sophomore in the youth ministry, it’s her fault for not putting out enough.
“Do you know any kids who have been married at age 12? I do. And guess what? They’re still married.”
If they’re following GOP Rep Dennis Hastert’s plan, it’s not just the girls they’re attempting to get pregnant
Don’t think they aren’t eyeing up little 13 year olds.
Judging from the Trump Supporting Pastor just arrested, Matt Gatez and the rest, I assume it’s not just eyeing the 13 year olds for work.
Deport workers and fill their positions with literal children. That’s an insane proposition that will only hurt the vulnerable and favour those willing to use them…
That would be a great point if not for the “rabble rabble DEI! rabble rabble Bootstraps!”
Stupid lib!
What?
I think what they were getting at was that you made a good point, but unfortunately those in power use devicive rhetoric in order to keep us mad at each other instead of mad at them.
Ohhh that’s a bingo!
The US is regressing more and more. I refuse to call it a first world country at this point.
“First world” etc are political terms relating to Cold War allegiance.
What you mean is “developed country” and there are good arguments that the US has never fully fitted that label. You’d have people coming from “developing countries” to the US and realize that infrastructure and social security there is way worse than in their home country.
Yeah, exactly. First world was allied with the US. Second world was allied with the soviets. Third world was basically everyone else, and was largely considered irrelevant to the Cold War. That’s why “third world” became a signifier of undeveloped countries; If a country wasn’t part of the Cold War, it was likely because they didn’t have enough developed resources or manpower to be considered a war asset. If they were developed enough to contribute, one of the two sides would have already been working on recruiting them to the war.
Yes but the “American Dream” was never that. It was always to get richer than everyone else and so I can just say fuck 'em to the plight of the rest. Or in alternative terms, it only concerns me when it actually directly affects me.
I believe the results of the last election and the ensuing “executive orders” actions are direct proof of that. Also it was proof of the large stupidity of the masses, something the Covid years exposed, but was directly proved in the election results. It was just a matter of time before a high level professional conman was so brazen about it.
USA is a third world country with a Gucci belt.
With fake timbs
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So they gonna get the right to vote? Cause if they are going to be treated as adult they should get vote.
Let’s also decrease liquor and smokes to 8 while we are at it.
Also remove child support cause they are grown up to get their own jobs and health insurance.
/s
f these people.
Health insurance? You think these kids are getting health insurance???
Laughs in capitalism
I’m not against letting teenagers work as long as there are protections. Removing guaranteed meals and overnight work? Nah.
If they’re removing these protections for teens what are they doing to the rights of adult employees?
Employees in Florida (and most states, like ~40 states) have no laws that require breaks. Many states do/did require that minors get them though
Truth. I grew up in Florida I always had breaks (first job was at age 16 at a pet store and I had LOTS of jobs after that) and was shocked when a friend of mine was working a fast food joint, in management, and had no lunch break. I told him he should sue and then we saw the law. Guess all my other employers were just cool or something. (I mean, they weren’t paid breaks—my friend was not even given the time in his schedule for breaks).
That’s food service. I live in a state that technically requires a paid 10 every 4 hours but my employer makes it so that affirming that you took all your required breaks is part of your clock-out procedure. To answer ‘no’ you have to find a manager at the end of your shift to swipe their card and verify that you did not receive your mandated breaks. Then it goes into a report that makes them look bad. You can imagine how they react when you start consistently telling on their negligence. I don’t know anyone who works there who tells the truth all the time.
I tried for a while, and it got me chewed out for not taking my breaks (as if I control the pace at which my tables are sat, or as if I can schedule a breaker on a weeknight). So I started taking breaks at the end of my shift, after my tables were gone but before I finished my side work, and suddenly I spent too much time in the break room.
Florida infamously removed water break regulations. In a state the military regularly suspends training due to the heat index. I’m starting to get the idea that these aren’t good people.
All workers should have a guaranteed meal break on any shift that takes up 6 hours or more of their day, commute included. The economy is supposed to work for us, not exploit us.
Sorry kids, you’re not old enough for a lunch break.
Right? This is… I never wanna hear “Won’t someone think of the children” again after this shit
It builds character. Malnourishment is character.
Dodged the bullet by being born in the 80s. We played Atari and Nintendo after school, then bicycle patrol around neighborhood
I was born in the 80s. I had a paper route at 13 so I could buy an OG PlayStation. Definitely not crazy shift work, but I wonder how a 13 year old could find employment for some spending money these days.
…born in the seventies, i was working by fifth grade and overnight by high school; longest shift i ever pulled was twenty-six hours without a break…
…kids born in the eighties enjoyed nineties child labor laws, which were kind of a mixed blessing: less exploitation but also less opportunities to earn money…
Kids shouldn’t have to be earning money. We are more than a cog in some capitalist’s machine. Productivity has massively increased and instead of demanding the gains of that increase we bemoan the loss of “opportunities”.
…adults shouldn’t have to be earning money either; good luck with that…
That’s the whole point, too bad you seem to be siding with the wealth hoarders
…siding?..i do what i must to survive but, if that comes across as advocating for serfdom, you’re inferring something i certainly didn’t imply…
…working as a kid afforded me toys, books, tapes, and musical instruments; working as an adult afforded me f*cking rent and insurance premiums…
All things you could have been provided with if your country had had functioning welfare and education systems
You poor thing
… is this a boast or a cautionary tale? I really can’t tell…
Cool so USA is importing everything
Iit had exported to third world countries.- Authoritarian dictatorial leadership ✔️
- Child exploiting sweatshop ✔️
What’s next USA?
Edit: Came here to add
- Detention without due process ✔️
Fascism is when Imperialism returns to the Core.
How have I not heard this before!
Police stealing money from citizens. Civil forfeiture.
USA is importing everything I had exported to third world countries
Jinkies, it was old man @reddit_sux spreading human suffering to the third world the whole time!
Damn Samsung autocorrect.
Transferring American achievement on to me.
Here I was thinking this was satire. Then I actually searched it up (source: CNN) and wtf?!
Supplying a source is important and is actually OP’s job, to avoid the spread of misinformation. Thank you for doing it for them.
Yeah, completely agree. Taking a photo of a TV screen showing the headline is just lazy.
The state has been easing up on child labor protections for years. Last year, the legislature passed a law allowing home-schooled 16- and 17-year old teens to work any hour of the day.
Ooof. They are literally targeting the people who are active followers of their capitalistic cult. These people are deranged.
I imagine this will work well with the school to prison pipeline.
Slavery’s going to be mainstream again
We don’t want them getting spoiled on their graveyard shifts with meal breaks
Especially on a school night!
Reason number 11,462,821 why you can never, under any circumstances, trust conservatives with power.
Serious question: Is this satire?
No, Ms Huckabee sanders already did this in '23 in ar- Kansas
1823 or 1923?
Oh much more recent. So much progress has been made! In the latter of the years you mentioned, woman would have only been able to vote for 3 years so there is no way a woman would have been in power to checks notes roll back protection on working conditions for minors.
I hate this timeline.
Yes.
