well this cant turn out to be a moral and ethical problem. no way this can turn out bad in any way right?
this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2025
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They sink and sink and sink and STILL refuse to vote in their best interests.
The lazier and angrier, the more ignorant they seem to become, and the easier it is to exploit them for life, they have less value as individuals, work MORE and LONGER for less and less, sliding back to the Middle Ages and they are the stupid, ignorant, disposable peasants.
Hey in the middle age people weren’t working that much… more first Industrial Revolution 🙂
There's gunna be some kids from some desperate situations, just trying to make money for their destitute families for any number of reasons.
The 14 year old, overworked and tired, will be called into the managers office.
"We've noticed you've been working really hard. You know, there's a promotion on offer. Comes with a substantial pay increase, might be able to help out mom and dad." The manager walks around behind them.
"We have lots of competition here, though." The door locks, the child feels hands on their shoulders.
"We need to see what you're willing to do to come out ahead."
If situations like this happens with adults, it will absolutely happen with children.
If you are an Indiana parent and allow your child to work a job that follows the new rules and doesn't have the kids best interest in mind then you are a bad parent. Educate your kids about what the job should be offering and you as the parent can restrict their hours.
Educate your kids about what the job should be offering and you as the parent can restrict their hours.
Sure, but the government taking away abortion rights and forcing these unqualified people to be parents while forcing these kids to work, sure sounds like they're creating a slave class.
Stop saying the quiet part out loud. Next, you'll be railing against prison labor, asking that we treat prisoners as people.
It's sarcasm, shut up.
It's sarcasm, shut up
Babe wake up, new /s tag dropped
A mod removed one of my comments because they didn't know what that meant. I'm a bit defensive after.
Unfunny people will be the death of us all, and I'm not even joking.
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I like it, seems cracked honestly because I can mark stuff and not need a shower after
Theres parents that snatch anything their teen kids make as "rent" then kick them out at 18 with nothing. They even try to make them pay back the cost of raising them.
As they said, bad parents.
Indiana parents are gonna accuse you of being a filthy communist if they catch you talking about workers rights like that.
The CEO needs his workers to be young, cheap, and completely subservient if he wants to buy that brand new fourth backup superyacht.
Hoosier here. We're trying to fix it. But guess which party has had a supermajority in state government for decades?
Republicans are racing to see who can make their state into a 3rd world country first.
Republicans are racing to see how many different ways they can legalize pedophilia.
A lot of states would already be classified as third world. Take away the funding from blue states and they go straight to undeveloped
Which ones? I live in a low income, rural area in a red state. It is nothing like a 3rd world country, just not even remotely close. Yet.
How many have you been to? I’ve been to a few.
I didn’t realize that 3rd world is a derogatory term from the Cold War era so let’s switch to developing.
One developing country I’ve been to is Paraguay. They have a literacy rate of 94.54% and apparently the global literacy rate is 86.3%
Let’s look at US states now https://www.datapandas.org/ranking/literacy-rate-by-state
Yes I just quickly googled these because this is social media, not a uni term paper
Well, I would agree that literacy rates are lower here.
To be fair, I am going off media representation of what is considered "developing" (well, media representation of "3rd world", anyway).
But, simply look up HDI scores for the US states and you will see that there is no comparison here.
Edit: link for your benefit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_Human_Development_Index_score
Paragauy was like .731 or something, for reference.
Considering all these changes have been since 2019, seems like they're actually successfully making it worse with each passing year.
You're not wrong.
Every time I go through Indiana it feels like a slow motion apocalypse is happening there. I always start looking for the Stacks from Ready Player One.
The sad part is Indiana is such a nice state. That was one state I've visited that I did not expect to like so much
Is it those damned Greens?
Wrong Christmas color.
What’s depressing is that I initially read this as “India is a great place to hire child labor”, thought damn that sucks, then realized it said “Indiana”. Not even surprised anymore tbh.
The children yearn for the mines.
*corn and soy fields
Just wait until they expand this again, permitting kids 12 and up to do sex work...
I read about a (right wing, religious) cult leader who said that menstruation is the signal that a female is ready for breeding. You're not at all wrong.
If it was good enough for the bronze age Israelites, it's good enough for us!
The children yearn for the mines!
they really do.