RE: The Absurd GOP
March 6, 2023 at 11:40 am
(This post was last modified: March 6, 2023 at 11:45 am by The Grand Nudger.)
It's even worse than that alone would suggest. The shape that minor employment in the us is currently taking on is one of unpaid or reduced pay "internships" or "apprenticeships". All of this is actively pitched as being good for the youth, and for developing the skills required to avoid the looming brain drain of mass retirement (currently ongoing) and consistently low replacement rates.
Child labor, so the story goes, is good for children, good for business, and good for america. Ignore any ideological objections, ignore any objections to fact. Consider, if you have the stomach for it, that this claim might be true. That this...is where we're actually at..... I suppose this might lead a person to suggest (specifically with respect to ideological objections) that if this were true then we should allow it to fail. Economic shock doctrine. We've seen where that goes, though. Russia.
Child labor, so the story goes, is good for children, good for business, and good for america. Ignore any ideological objections, ignore any objections to fact. Consider, if you have the stomach for it, that this claim might be true. That this...is where we're actually at..... I suppose this might lead a person to suggest (specifically with respect to ideological objections) that if this were true then we should allow it to fail. Economic shock doctrine. We've seen where that goes, though. Russia.
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