Lefty Memes @lemmy.dbzer0.com Sgt_choke_n_stroke @lemmy.world 1 yr. ago

Child labor laws were enacted in the 1930s fyi, its not new for capitalists to use children.

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Do you have a version with less pixels please? I can almost read it
- I hope you can read this
Waging should not be the concern of children in a first world country.
- Waging should not be the concern of children.
  
  Fact.
- "First world country"
Children NOT being used for labor is a very recent phenomenon. It has nothing to do with the economic system of the country as the kids of rice farmers in Vietnam are harvesting rice just like the kids of rice farmers in North Carolina, USA are. Children not being used for labor is the results of automation and industrialization.
- In the US it was actually the great depression that got a child labor law passed. there had been attempts to get something passed before, even attempts rooted in racism, but it wasn't until everyone was out of work that everyone could agree maybe only adults should be working
  
  Your username is amazing. Never doubt your greatness.
Child labor is definitely not historically unique to capitalism, even in the modern era.

Stalin famously conscripted people into the labor reserve starting at 14 and the gulag system has plenty of history of child labor. And so on.
- What's the difference between prison and a gulag? The same difference between an oligarch and a billionaire
  
  Edit: holy shit it's like arguing with Colin Robinson don't bother
  
  Im not really sure how that has anything to do with my comment. You can't dunk on capitalism for child labor and then be like "it's ok if Stalin does it because capitalism does it." That invalidates the original dunk, no?
- "It's ok because Stalin did it" isn't the best argument.
“Children should be free to earn their own money if they want to”

Liberals
- Weird since it was liberals who pushed child labor laws in the first place. No one thinks this is new to capitalism.
  
  Seriously in 3000 BCE millennia before capitalism there were kids laboring.
  
  Edit: capitalism is not responsible for child labor. Child labor has existed for almost all of history until extremely recently and is not inherent to any system
- This is the dumbest take I've seen in a while.
  You seriously think liberals and capitalism are the only things that used child labor? Lol
  
  Well, it seems your take is actually quite a bit dumber. 👍
Please consider this:

"lemonade stands" don't occur in other countries.
- they do though, but lemonade stands aren’t really child labour
  
  They are usually for fun and no one makes them do it and they are not doing it to put food on the table. It's like playing grownup for them.
- I always thought they were actually cringey.

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