The Outrage Thread

[Chocolate Lab]

We should tell the UN in the least uncertain of terms to go fuck themselves. What do they do for us?

 

[roughneck266]

We should tell the UN in the least uncertain of terms to go fuck themselves. What do they do for us?

Mostly they receive our checks. Like dating a hooker that you ain't gettin any from.

 

[bbgun]

Yep, they’re gonna legalize pedophilia alright:

 

[bbgun]

that'll teach him

 

[roughneck266]

that'll teach him

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Dumbest shit ever.

 

[boozeman]

 

[Cotton]

I like it. Get 'em started young. Legally.

 

[Cotton]

 

[boozeman]

I like it. Get 'em started young. Legally.

The only issue is that I can see employers paying them less for the jobs, the danger of the jobs where even grown ass stupid fuckers hurt themselves and also some lazy parents who send their kids out to work while they sit on their asses.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

My dad started working at age 14 or something. He would say it helped him the rest of his life.

But my guess is this is because companies are short of workers. More covid fallout.

And there's still a minimum wage.

 

[mcnuttz]

The only issue is that I can see employers paying them less for the jobs, the danger of the jobs where even grown ass stupid fuckers hurt themselves and also some lazy parents who send their kids out to work while they sit on their asses.

They shouldn't be allowed to pay them less than minimum wage.

 

[Rev]

I started working at my dad's shop when I was 10. It wasn't much. Usually sweeping or even working the cash register (supervised). Handful of attempts at selling (again supervised). He had me there during the summers and would usually send me home in the afternoon.

 

[Cotton]

I started working at my dad's shop when I was 10. It wasn't much. Usually sweeping or even working the cash register (supervised). Handful of attempts at selling (again supervised). He had me there during the summers and would usually send me home in the afternoon.

I started mowing yards at age 10. I would push the lawnmower with a weedeater on it all around the neighborhood. Then at age 13 I got a job hauling hay. Hardest job I have ever had.

 

[Simpleton]

Letting 14 year olds work 6 hour night shifts is just going to turn poor kids into poor adults as they prioritize working low paying jobs instead of going to school.

 

[boozeman]

They shouldn't be allowed to pay them less than minimum wage.

I can see the child labor market explode if they can get away with minimum wage for manual labor jobs. You know, like they do for illegals.

 

[Cotton]

Letting 14 year olds work 6 hour night shifts is just going to turn poor kids into poor adults as they prioritize working low paying jobs instead of going to school.

Going to school isn't always the answer for everyone. Going to work at 14 might actually teach the kid a trade like plumbing, electrician, carpenter, etc. You can make a really good living at those trades.

 

[boozeman]

Going to school isn't always the answer for everyone. Going to work at 14 might actually teach the kid a trade like plumbing, electrician, carpenter, etc. You can make a really good living at those trades.

To quote Judge Smails, “the world needs ditch diggers too.”.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

At least here, illegals often don't even get minimum. That's why people hire them.

And on the 14 year olds...nobody said that was for year round. Probably mostly summer jobs.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

Letting 14 year olds work 6 hour night shifts is just going to turn poor kids into poor adults as they prioritize working low paying jobs instead of going to school.

I mean 14 year olds have been working in Iowa for many years. All they did was modify the restrictions on it. I grew up in Iowa, it's very common for kids to work at a young age. The truth is it helps to supply the trade industry. The craftsman, the carpenters, the brick layers and the machinists. A lot of these are industries that kids get into while in highschool in Iowa. And most of the kids that stick with those past highschool are kids that probably shouldn't go to college. It's not a bad thing, I actually think we need more of it. As a kid who worked in his dads machine shop at a young age and did production work, if anything it showed me that the money was great but that it wasn't what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. So I went to college and law school and did something else.

Trust me, this sort of stuff isn't going to motivate kids to drop out of school. If anything, it will motivate a lot of kids to stay in school. But you're helping kids know what they do or don't want to do with the rest of their lives.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

At least here, illegals often don't even get minimum. That's why people hire them.

And on the 14 year olds...nobody said that was for year round. Probably mostly summer jobs.

It's weird to me that people are shocked by this. I thought it was fairly common for 14 year olds to work during summer. Does this not happen everywhere?