There are far less teenagers then migrants. Maybe those businesses should move away from exploitation altogether.
So slaves sorry, prisoners have to pick up the slack.
Remember, the Constitution allows slavery! Plus, it only bans punishments that are cruel and unusual - punishments that are just cruel or just unusual are fine!
Stop bringing up facts and figures, I have wordly experience!
-The average conservative voter
Voters? I have no qaulm with voters, I hate that how the elected officials act!
I did corn detasseling for 2-half days (we got rained out on day 1) back when I was 12. I imagine those migrants were much more capable and tolerant of the bs than I was. -I remember the humidity in the fields, the mud, and the desire to vomit.
newsweek is a conspiracy peddling right-wing rag, please stop driving traffic to them
No
In November 2022, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported that Newsweek had “taken a marked radical right turn by buoying extremists and promoting authoritarian leaders” since it hired conservative political activist Josh Hammer as editor-at-large. It noted the magazine’s elevation of conspiracy theorists, publication of conspiracy theories about COVID-19, views such as support for a ban on all legal immigration to the United States and denying adults access to trans-affirming medical care, and failure to disclose potential conflicts of interest in the content published on Hammer’s opinion section and podcast.
Newsweek in particular is vile and horrible, and you are driving traffic to them. That there are other news sites with problems is whataboutism, it doesn’t address that this problem.
Here’s an easy alternative: https://www.axios.com/local/tampa-bay/2025/03/25/florida-child-labor-bill-migrant-workers
It’s odd that despite having been on Lemmy for a year you’ve never made a single news or politics post. The very best way to make sure posts are from sources you approve of is to make posts from sources you approve of.
I don’t know their past, or their politics, but they are right. Newsweek should be avoided when possible.
Sure, lets hire children for everything, I mean everything:
“I’m bored, my mom grounded me”
“Hey wanna play a game?”
“What?”
“Lets, turn the keys, see what happens.”
“…”
“C’mon pussy. There’s nothing fun at home anyways, you’re grounded. This is gonna be fun!”
“Um… fine…”
“Alright, 3… 2… 1…”
keys are turned simultaneously
🚀🌎🌏💥 (Nuclear ICBM Launched)
We did this already, why must we repeat the worst parts of history?
When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers
Good. But I don’t agree with anyone I know that Florida “isn’t that bad.”
I don’t have a map of statistics where bad shit happens, but if I did, Florida would stand out.
It’s a fucking swamp. Humans aren’t meant for that environment. (Actually, I don’t know if humans ever naturally adjusted to swamps, it just seems like tons of horrible ways to die)
There were native tribes living there prior to the Europeans coming.
And they were constantly fighting over the few places humans can live.
Lol! Good luck getting teenagers to work those kinds of jobs in the 1st place. But expecting them to work overnight, then go to school…without any meal breaks?
LMFAO!! Who the fuck thought this would be a good idea? Unless they’re planning on forcing kids to do this, it will never happen.
Someone I knew was hard-core conservative and thought forcing (other people’s) kids to work was a fucking great idea. When asked about the dangers of working in a industrial kitchen or a meat packing plant he said he wasn’t worried about that at all. Insurance companies would never allow it.
He spouted all kinds of other right wing BS that was almost as disturbing. That kind of nutcase is exactly who the fuck thought this would be a good idea.
Uugh. That’s so dumb. Insurance companies simply wouldn’t cover them…but that wouldn’t stop those companies from employing children. Especially if conservatives are dismantling work place safety regulations at the same time.
…until this band of demons gets the likes of donvict to start threatening them if they don’t comply with the very worst polices the qons can dream up.
I think they’re expecting an influx of dropping out to enter the
wage slave marketwork force. So for them, it’s hitting a triple - less expenses to education, a less educated populace, and a locked-in-for-life service industry workforce.
Just imagine… Kamala was somehow worse.
/s for those easily triggered assholes
What in the 1600
It would have only worked if those were mining jobs. You know how them kids yearn for the mines. Minor miners.
Sadly, Florida doesn’t have the right geology for mines.
Unfortunately for Floridians there are definitely open pit mines in Fla.
THIS is Why America is on the Decline! Kids need WORK ETHICS not EDUCATION!
-Parents like Elon Musk who Complain about WOKENESS for Why Their Children HATE them!
Not Florida but:
Rotschy, which routinely hired teenage workers amid recent labor shortages, violated the law when supervisors assigned tasks known to be dangerous and prohibited for minors to perform.
‘Beyond failure’ – Washington teen loses legs at school-based work program
If you push for child labour and have less osha power to keep them safe plus lower regulations on selling tainted meat then on top all that you have courts that don’t hold businesses accountable, you’ll end up with people eating children that fall in something like an industrial meat grinder and even if people do find out they don’t have to recall it, some may even have a choice if they can’t afford something better
The bill would have permitted 16- and 17-year-olds to work overnight on school days and work longer than an eight-hour day before a school day. Some 14- and 15-year-olds would also have been allowed to work those hours.
While sane and modern countries use this time to educate children and ensure they don’t need to work graveyard shifts during high school even go so far as funding their higher education so they can become highly-functional and productive tax-paying members of society, America begins its foray into bringing back child labor to backfill some of the most grueling and thankless jobs in the country.
Great fucking job you fucks
It’s not about backfilling the jobs, as much as it is about indoctrination into the slave work force and destroying their academic education.
I don’t know why they bother. Unemployment is probably going to be rampant by this time next year. No need to work kids to death when they can just starve them.
I don’t think they’re planning on anyone growing up to pay taxes. They wanna make their cash today.
well… isn’t this the same crowd that wants to get rid of the IRS?
Yep. “Now that you don’t pay taxes, your boss can pay you less and you’ll still have higher net pay.”
It’s all for the oligarchs. They don’t give a shit about the people.
“No sixteen year olds want to work these days”
I understand you are joking, but can never pass up an opening to post this:
