…solves the low-wage problem by hiring kids who don’t know better.
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Then we'll just have to organise and unionise the kids too!
Or better yet, we should enact laws that protect children from the workforce. Maybe we can call them "child labor laws"
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…solves the low-wage problem by hiring kids who don’t know better.
And they're at work instead of school so they don't learn better.
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Wow did not realise that three of our states don't have a minimum working age - NSW, Tasmania and South Australia.
Wait is this an Australian news story? I just assumed it was about somewhere here in the US
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The children yearn for the jam factory
You can take the children out of the jam factory but you can't take the jam factory out of the children
Unless they fall into the industrial equipment, then you absolutely cannot take the children out of the jam factory.
"Local child jammed into jam factory jam jams jam jammer."
Edit: J's are starting to look weird to me after staring at this too long.
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Child poverty is a big issue but people seem to forget that work is the best thing again poverty /s
Really? I'm over here in Texas and we seem to have found a completely different solution to childhood poverty. And childhood...
Guns and building schools across the street from poorly regulated fertilizer factories.
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Some facts to consider:
- This happened in New South Wales, in a very rural area. People are not going to commute out to this remote location for minimum wage.
- Kids volunteer on the weekends and parents sign off on it.
- Some of the kids like it because they don't have anything else to do, they learn a job skill, and they make a little money.
That said, I don't agree with it. Hire adults and do what everyone else does by having a "bring your child to work day/week" if you want to teach kids. Or make a field trip. Let's not go backwards in society to benefit companies.
Kids volunteer on the weekends and parents sign off on it.
I grew up in a poor rural area, and we had a bunch of child labor due to agriculture exceptions.
Most of it wasn't kids earning a "life skill" or pocket money. It was poor kids who had to work. And usually their parents worked there too.
And they only need to be 12 for it to be legal.
The families need the kids to work, but the kids working inflates the labor pool and keeps wages low.
If a kids like 16 and wants to pick up a part time job, cool.
But little kids shouldn't be holding down jobs.
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Wow, i swear they're about to write "jam factory help solve poverty by hiring child."
Jam factory solves lack of red-coloured blobby ingredients being forced through high-speed machinery by hiring children.
Call it what it is: child exploitation
Should this be cross posted to uplifting news? Seems about their speed.
Done, with some changes. https://mander.xyz/post/10393242
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