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10-year-olds found working at McDonald’s until 2 a.m. (www.axios.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Incentivizing the exploitation of children seems like a wonderful way to kill an obscene amount of children.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Charging more isn’t incentivizing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Reread your comment from the perspective of a family struggling to make ends meet

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think we are on the wrong page.

By charging I mean the wage. Charging more for a kid. I can see how my choice of words was confusing.

Let me reword it:

Requiring that children under 18 get an additional wage of $5/hr per year they are under 18 (17 = +5, 16 = +10, etc) is a way to discourage companies from hiring underage workers by making them cost more.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I know, but my point is that with it now being legal, poor families will now sell their kids out as young as they possibly can out of desperation to anyone who will pay to earn wages even the adults can't get, and now you've just made child slavery a thing, and growing necessity, as real wages continue to decline

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And it isn’t incentivizing parents to push their children to work at increasingly younger ages? Even at the expense of school, social life, and development? Especially the poorest families?

You are reinventing the entire problem that created child labour to begin with.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Pal, reading the entire thread will show you that I’m against child labor and cracking the joke that children should cost more to employ as a way to prevent cheap child labor.

It’s a joke. Child labor is bad. Goodnight.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Wow, it’s very obvious that you are joking.

Could you explain the joke maybe? I think you may have forgotten the part that’s supposed to make people laugh. I genuinely don’t see how what you said is supposed to be a joke.

Don’t worry though buddy. I’m sure it’s all in good fun.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just ban it and force them to pay adult workers more

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago

Well, yeah, child labor is not cool.