Striker@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 10 months agoA literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the USlemmy.worldimagemessage-square332fedilinkarrow-up11.36Karrow-down1122cross-posted to: benjamingetthemusket@lemmy.cafe
arrow-up11.24Karrow-down1imageA literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the USlemmy.worldStriker@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 10 months agomessage-square332fedilinkcross-posted to: benjamingetthemusket@lemmy.cafe
minus-squareBolexForSoup@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-210 months agoWe’re justifying kids working at fast food restaurants in order to fund raise for their afterschool activities now?
minus-squareNoIWontPickaName@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 months agoWhen I was a kid that would have been fun as hell. We’re adults now we’ve seen how the sausage made
minus-squareBolexForSoup@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoI don’t know how you grew up, but I don’t think I ever had a strong desire to work a deep fryer or work at a cash register all day
minus-squareNoIWontPickaName@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoReally you never played store as a kid?
minus-squareBolexForSoup@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-210 months agoPlayed. And for minutes. And it wasn’t literal work for an actual business.
minus-squareChozo@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-210 months agoThey’re not doing it because they have to, but because they want to. It’d be one thing if this was some middle schooler working to put food on his family’s table, but they’re raising money for a fun thing to do at school. The circumstances are kinda important here, IMO.
minus-squareBolexForSoup@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoThis is “the children yearn for the mines” but you’re being serious.
minus-squareChozo@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoThey’re not “working”. You’re delusional if you believe they are.
We’re justifying kids working at fast food restaurants in order to fund raise for their afterschool activities now?
When I was a kid that would have been fun as hell.
We’re adults now we’ve seen how the sausage made
I don’t know how you grew up, but I don’t think I ever had a strong desire to work a deep fryer or work at a cash register all day
Really you never played store as a kid?
Played. And for minutes. And it wasn’t literal work for an actual business.
They’re not doing it because they have to, but because they want to. It’d be one thing if this was some middle schooler working to put food on his family’s table, but they’re raising money for a fun thing to do at school.
The circumstances are kinda important here, IMO.
This is “the children yearn for the mines” but you’re being serious.
They’re not “working”. You’re delusional if you believe they are.