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1. Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 30-May-2023 16:19:52 EDT Ji Fu

   Republicans are brining back child labor

   This is the kind of thing that is out of wack in the US due to their inability to create a civilized society. Exploitation of young wage slaves was eliminated in North America over a century ago by organized union workers. Only after the market already changed did politicians make laws out-lawing it so they'd get credit rather than the #workingclass. Recently some #Republican politicians (who are still POSs) have entertained ideas of removing a number of restrictions to teenagers being able to find employment if they so choose. Namely removing the need for a permission slip form from a government school in order to take a job for wages during summer months. This is a good thing! I'm not certain if those speaking against it are misinformed as to what the change is, are just blindly opposed to "the other team" or if they really think my homeschooler needs the local public principle to sign a form if she wants to wash dishes at the restaurant in town.

   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 30-May-2023 17:07:20 EDT lnxw48a1

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      @fu The idea is that your teen probably needs to successfully finish school, so she isn't still doing that same low-wage, no-benefits job thirty years from now. And yes, that does happen.
      
      What these pollies are trying to do is give companies compliant and helpless workers, so they don't have to raise pay and benefits enough to attract currently unwilling adults.
      
      Even in SoCal, I knew a girl who quit high school because $FAST_FOOD_PLACE promised to make her a manager with a sizable raise. A year or so later, after the promotion and raise hadn't come, she changed to another FFP employer ... according to someone from the old neighborhood, she wound up perishing in a suspicious single-vehicle crash a few years later.
      
      That said, if you and your spouse are home schooling your kids, one of you should be the relevant school principal. City Prep's principal has no record of how well students from outside that school are doing.
      1. GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 30-May-2023 18:28:10 EDT GeniusMusing

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         @fu @lnxw48a1
         I think what we are seeing play out is what George Carlin was talking about...
         
         >Governments don’t want well informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. That is against their interests.
         >They want obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept it.
         – George Carlin
   2. Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 14:58:03 EDT Ji Fu

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      @DeepSpaceDelta9 @LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} simsa04@gnusocial.net @Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: @GeniusMusing @GNU TooThis thread too

      
      

      ♲ @mishi@kolektiva.social: First, we roll back child labor laws, then we want to bring manufacturing back to the states. Until women are paid the same as men and kids are not allowed into the workforce, this is not a feel good story.

   3. Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 15:00:00 EDT Ji Fu

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      @DeepSpaceDelta9 @LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} @simsa04 @Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: @GeniusMusing @GNU Too This thread too.

      
      

      ♲ @mishi@kolektiva.social: First, we roll back child labor laws, then we want to bring manufacturing back to the states. Until women are paid the same as men and kids are not allowed into the workforce, this is not a feel good story.