The US has had child labor laws since 1938 lmao
this dude is certainly lying, but…
fun fact: in most every US state, agricultural activity/labor is exempt from minimum wage and child labor laws.
The federal laws would still apply. I’m assuming the state laws are either old or in place for when the feds get rid of child labor laws. Kinda like they did with abortion laws, states had laws in place ready for Roe to be overturned.
good luck getting state and local cops to enforce federal laws on the plantations who benefit from the muddied discrepancies. the feds might show up for human trafficking of migrants, or H-2A workers filing a complaint, depending on the administration because there’s a paper trail of federal documents.
even the references 1938 standard had carve-out exemptions and more lax standards for children engaged in agricultural labor.
similar to how the NLRA doesn’t cover agricultural labor.
agriculture has always lived in this grey area where the law is whatever the guy standing over you says it is. I mean shit, the still present constitutional exemption for the prohibition of slavery was written for agriculture.
anyway, not to derail because it’s peripheral to the post, but it’s something I’ve learned more about in the last 10 years or so. ag is rife with crazy worker exploitation.
Yeah, I actually grew up doing ag work in one of those states. I’m not like…disagreeing with you or anything. Just think it’s funny that the laws have existed longer than this guy has been alive. There are tons of exemptions etc, but explaining all of that sort of ruins the humor in it
Regardless, how can you be so fucked up that you argue against feeding children.
As one person, FALGSConaut [comrade/them], prolly noted
100% he got dragged to a pick-your-own-berries farm as a kid and is now claiming that makes him understand agricultural child labor
“I was picking berries as a toddler”
This is the superior jacking off gesture, it exerts dominance over the recipient while expressing utter disdain for their opinions.
this is high praise from a Kennedy
Unfathomably evil, I don’t even know what to say. The opposite of Parenti’s “I support the revolution that feeds the children.” Who could possibly see increasing the hunger of children as a moral good, it’s inhuman.
Good. Turn all schools into prisons and get the kids ready for being arrested for vagrancy under capitalism because rent in the middle of nowhere is $5,000 a month.
They’ll do all this while calling America the “land of the free” with a straight face
“i survived the orphan crushing machine so i dont see why we have to switch it off!”
Everyone who shortens their name to “Rich” instead of “Dick”, like all the normal Richards do, should get the
just out of principle.Ritchie is alright (although he should have won the Kanto league if Ash couldn’t.)
Also a general rule of white men in suits. The shoddier, the uglier the suit, the more vile he is. The only exception is if that white man is actually working class and therefore cannot afford more high end, beautifully fitting suits.
Counterpoint: Nazis
“Apartheid shouldn’t be over because I survived drinking from a water fountain with lead in the water.”
Thats why the G-Man from Half Life is so ominnous.
Off topic, but I remember how much of an advantage kids who had skirted child labour laws at applying for jobs had when I started looking for work at 15 or 16. But also kids that got hired by their parents construction company, weren’t abused etc etc
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