This is what they want for me, you, and our children and wouldn’t hesitate a second to do it again provided the line goes up
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So childhood poverty was handled?
/s
First quarter over quarter GDP gains have been less than expected. We have to look to out of the box solutions, and this blue sky strategy looks like it may show promise. I’ll forward this memo up to corporate.
I get what you’re saying but it is unrealistic in this society. Many industries opt to replace their workers with automated systems. Perhaps this same level of greed has been redirected into newer unregulated ways.
K, so pulling this thread, if children have no value as laborers in the future dystopia no one but the oligarchs wants, what would their for-profit role be? Societal larvae destined to be future laborers with adult human skills not easily automated? In the meantime, how would they ‘earn their keep’ so-to-speak?
Child labor is used all around the world still. Just have to loosen laws a bit and make people poor enough to accept low wages, then it will be (more) of a thing in the US too. Below-living wage is cheaper than automating for many tasks; doesn’t require the rich to risk as much capital either.
I agree with that.
You do realize several plants in the US have already been caught using child labor, right?
Now its time to compare several to the national total. You did say the US right?
lol
Are they automating their jobs away to let the rest of humanity live lives of joyous leisure, or will those non-owners who no longer provide utility to the owners just be starved to death?
Most of human history was like this. The 50 year period after WWII is the aberration. If we don’t fight the oligarchs this is what they will reduce us to.
Most of human history…hmm checks notes… since the invention of capitalism about 400 years ago, yes.
Even serfs under feudal lords had significantly more free time and while basic child labor was common, it was mostly in family run farms.
Pre-industrial societies still expected children to work from young ages. And they would often switch to adult labour in their early teens.
Right, but the industrial revolution wasn’t the mark of the start of this. The end of Feudalism is what they’re pointing towards. And they’re not arguing for Feudalism either, but rather that we should do neither capitalism nor Feudalism
Ya preindustrial society was all kinds of fucked up. That comment was unhinged.
Instructions unclear, reverted to feudalism, defended literal, inherited pile of manure with violence
Orphan grinding machine goes brrrr…
Conservatives: Won’t somebody think of the children?!
Subtext: as slave labor or sex objects or ideological battlefields or…
There’s pictures of children in the Coal Breakers. Missing hands. That worked back breaking labor sorting coal from my home town. It’s disgusting what people did to their children for money. Coal fields buried many children.
They kind of had to otherwise the entire family would starve. It’s fucked up, but right now the only reason I am stay afloat is because I live alone in a one room studio apartment with a communal bathroom. My mental health is kind of going to shit, but at least I get to eat.
https://thetruepanopticon.bandcamp.com/track/kentucky
This whole album is about that. It’s totally fucked
Charles Bronson grew up in a coal mining town. Even though everyone worked their asses off, still so poor he sometimes had to wear his sister’s dress to school!
MAGA would have him arrested for that!
They would make dresses and clothing from flour bags. Flour companies recognized this and started shipping colorful bags for mothers to use.
Photographer: Hine, Lewis Wickes
Flashlight photo of children on night shift going to work at 6 PM on a cold dark December night.
Work shift lasts all night, 12 hours.
They do not come out again until 6:00 AM
Child workers on their way to a night shift at Whitnel Cottton Mills. North Carolina, USA 1908.
Thank you so much for the link. The clearer image shows the girl at the door has her hand on her hip. I was afraid it might’ve been a stump. Which could have happened if it were caught in the machinery, though she’d likely have bled to death or been unemployable and starved.
Capitalism Demands Your Sacrifice!
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This is the “great” MAGA wants again.
Stop showing this shit, Republicans can only get so hard…
Sorry, couldn’t tell…
more info: https://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html#mill
OP photo near the bottom
And this photo shows a group of child laborers going in for a 12-hour night shift at a meat packing plant in Kansas, 2025. Just kidding, they will not make the mistake of allowing photography this time around.
My 13 year old kid whines when I maker her clean up her dishes
If the parents are made poor enough, this will come back. Just in case you don’t know why they kill social security.
When I was a kid, my parents would wax poetically about their summers spent picking strawberries and green beans earning 25 cents a day in California Central Valley. They loved it, apparently.
Good, honest work they told me. Then as I got older they demanded I attend college and get a white collar career established, lol.
Let me wax in: I picked cherries as a kid. Not for poetry, though, but to make some money for myself.
And just like the guard on a a meat grinding machine at a packing plant, the law doesn’t stop them from sucking in minors
