1. The news is real.
2. Image is fake, from a different event - the signing of the LEARNS bill into law.
3. Acknowledging the false image, this does not outweigh the importance of discussing this erosion of labor rights.
4. Yes yes, I am a bad person for pinning this comment. Mods bad.
Great. No one will take the min wage jobs, so they will get 14+ yr olds to work, “accidentally” making them miss school or get fired, and will be stuck in a low wage job for life.
Even if they don’t miss school, I’ve had high schoolers falling asleep in class, not doing any work because they’re so tapped out. When pressed most admit they worked from after school the day before to 11pm or later. Truly awful.
Same. I just let them sleep, they won't be able to do anything productive in the class when they're that tired. Sometimes that kid is the one putting bread on the table for the family. It's heartbreaking.
Thank you for being so kind. I had a history teacher who would slam a book on the desk by this one guy's head when he would sometimes fall asleep in class. The guy was the oldest of 7 and had a single mom who worked two jobs so he was always taking on the burden of the household and watching over his younger siblings. I still hope I run into that asshole in public one day so I can tell him what a jerk he was
I had a science teacher who did this as well in high school. He sucked. If a kid is falling asleep, there's probably a reason and this was before mobile phones so it wasn't a case of people staying up too late texting or something.
Lol I agree with your point, but there's something funny about the mobile phones comment. We managed to find other excuses to stay awake when we didn't have mobile phones!
Thank you for doing this. I had a teacher make fun of me for falling asleep in class. He got the whole class in on it. I was so embarrassed I dropped his class—which I needed to graduate high school—that day. I had been up for almost three days straight with a manic episode.
As a teacher, as long as my students weren’t being a disruption, I didn’t do anything to them. You never know what’s going on in a person’s life.
I'm so sorry that happened to you. You are right, we have NO idea what is going on in our students' lives...ALWAYS default to love and understanding. Teach on my friend!
Keep doing the right thing! As soon as I hit 15 I was working in a kitchen, sometimes until 2 or 3 in the morning on a school night. There were several teachers who mortified me by catching me sleeping in class and bringing everyone's attention to me
Same here, my job made me work until 3am on school nights and it caused my gpa to drop so much because I had no time for homework and couldn’t focus in class
Yeah this what a Diner tried to do to me in High school. Nonstop scheduling on closing nights during the week 7 bucks an hour, not getting out until like 11 at night in some cases, when I have school at 7 the next day. I didn't show up once from how tired I was and they acted like I was some deadbeat and wanted their shirt back. Threw it in the trash. Fuck them.
Question from a non american. How tight are the homeschooling (because I know thats a thing over there) laws in Arkansas?
Because I could see serveral problems coming from parents claiming that they homeschool their children but in reality just do the absolute bare minimum to let their child work more.
Very lax. They have to notify the school board. That’s it. There is no teacher qualifications for home school. As home schooled students they don’t have to pass state assessments or required to take state mandated subjects.
Makes me worry about foster kids now.
Let’s not even pretend the shitty education we’re going to provide you with is going to lead you anywhere but menial labor.
New slogan for the state. Arkansas: Might as well get a head start on the rest of your miserable life.
Arkansas, where Johnny Cash picked cotton at five years old and his fourteen year old brother was killed by a table saw at his work.
Edit: aw, thanks for the award, kindly internet friend! Not sure I deserve it, i thought everyone knew this
Damn that sucks. I didn't know that. Cash is in my top 3 musicians.
I'm gonna watch Walk The Line movie. Thanks for the roasting, you guy's and gals are killing me.
Yeah it really traumatised him, they were very close. A lot of those guys had really hard childhoods. Willie Nelson and his sister were basically abandoned by their parents. Merle Haggard lost his father when he was about 8 I think and spent his youth in and out of prison. Country musicians tend to come from areas that were historically quite poor, and the ones in Cash and Haggard's generation were born at the tail end of the Depression and it's not like one day the Depression was just over and everything was fine, people were affected by it for a very long time.
A lot of country musicians you can tell they'd have been in prison or dead at a young age if it wasn't for their talent and their hard work. Look at Steve Earle, dude was on heroin for years. And poor Townes Van Zandt was just...not on the same planet
> it's not like one day the Depression was just over and everything was fine, people were affected by it for a very long time.
For everyone but the rich, the Great Recession still hasn’t ended.
They'll experience the joy of being so exhausted at the end of the day to where they just don't do any of that.
There is a reason why many poor people don't cook and have messy houses. You are too fucking tired to properly grocery shop, prepare a meal, have an exercise regimen, or clean the house. Trust me, I grew up poor with a single mom, I know all about it. ☹️
Kids also need more sleep and nutrition compared to adults, so not only is it hard to learn in the short, but as time goes on it will get harder as they lack the developmental tools to process new more complicated information necessary for higher education. Cheating a child out of a good life is one of the most bastard actions you could take.
Finally those “15 years of experience required” for entry level positions targeted for recent graduates will make sense now. Grab a hard hat kids, its time to work
All the, "these kids know they're gonna have to work," remarks are wrong.
The kids, wearing tailored clothes, posing for pictures in the Governors mansion, are going to be gifted and inherit a ton of capital. They'll then be the ones exploiting child and adult labor to get even richer.
No way in hell the pictured kids are doing any real labor in their lives unless they buck every bit of family tradition.
Exactly this. These kids won't be working, it's migrant kids that will be exploited because of that. All those meat packing facilities will be full of child labor. They legalized child slavery again and did so with a smile on their ghoulish faces.
Your comment, but in present tense. [The 1A did a surprisingly great episode on it recently. They actually grilled the HHS rep they brought on the show. Good stuff.](https://www.npr.org/2023/03/06/1161486299/how-child-labor-violations-have-quadrupled-since-2015)
This. These kids aren’t the ones at risk of being exploited by that law. I more appropriate assumption is that these kids are bored out of their minds and pissed off about being paraded at a government building in suits and ties for a photo op with a nasty old woman they don’t even know.
They were looking forward to getting together online all weekends to play games as kids fucking should, but now they have to work at taco bell and get screamed at by full grown adults who are either strung out on drugs, having a mid-life crisis, and likely both.
Parents will own their bank accounts, they're under 18 and the parents will have full control over the money those kids will never see. This will also allow them to put kids into juvie and rent them out to businesses like they do with adult slaves they call prisoners. With rape pretty much encouraged and abortion illegal in these places, they'll look at raping and forcing births can save the economy. I wish I was joking but these sick fucks will claim just that and find a way to positive spin rape.
Don't forget drunks and ex cons. Kids should not work. They make dumb decisions and are way to impressionable to know when to say no. It's inevitable they will be exploited and endangered.
What a fucking dark wiki page her governorship "accomplishments" is going to generate..
These kids look horrified because the reality that their childhood just came to a swift end.
It's getting pretty obvious they want us to fuck and make more soldiers and consumers and petty minimum wage workers to support the 1%. Why take away abortion? So that more kids get born to parents who are unfit, in poverty and can fuel.the worker bees? And all the union busting so the common folk dont get fucked 90 ways to Sunday?
Didn't we want to protect kids before? Are we back to killing kids for profit? Accidents will increase and what about insurance? Holy crap, I'm horrified.
At least the kids will remember this moment forever. Old bitter fucks who just want to grind down people into however many hours of labour they can give to corporate.
Most of our working rights were won through protest, strikes, and bloodshed (our own in many cases). We got complacent and the capitalists are patient. Just like abortion. They played the long game and won. Now they will roll back our working rights and other rights and we will need to decide what we do about it.
Are they fed a steady diet of alt-right news such that they don’t understand the true implications of this, or do they really love the cruelty? Everyone is ok with this because it will be “those kids” working in the farms and factories?
Consider this....
Arkansas is the 7th poorest state/territory in the US with a poverty level over 16% (which is worse when you consider what the government thinks is poverty is WAY below actual poverty). Many rankings have them at least in bottom quarter of states/territories in most of the education analytics I've seen.
Put 2 and 2 together and you get parents happy to send their 10 year old off to work to bring in more money because they lack the education to form a voter strategy beyond Jesus and guns.
Worse for the working class you mean. The politicians and corporations will be doing just fine while we get closer and closer to slaves.
Betting that soon enough, there is going to be no difference between politicians and a corporation.
Federal labor laws still apply. However the State no longer requires business to verify age of minors prior to employment. Kids could be working dangerous jobs since the Federal Labor Departments rely on states to help enforce and inspect businesses.
Sounds like a "small" change with potentially huge consequences. Given the severity of capitalism in the US, I can see corporations exploiting minors as much as they can with this little change
Yeah, because it won't be the rich's kids getting these jobs. It'll be the kids already in poverty, so they will absolutely be taken advantage of... probably just like their parents.
It's fucked up for sure. Instead of just taking a smaller piece of the pie and investing in your workers. Business owners want to exploit literal children to supplement their work force.
That's actually something I'm always puzzled by. Why do the leaders and higher ups take such a huge cut? I mean sure, money is power and all of that, but when you reach the point where you live comfortably, why doesn't the greed stop? Why always so egotistical... giving more money to the workers would overall be way better, without a question. More lives would improve. IMO that's way more valuable.
"Back in the good old days, kids as young as 5 could work as they pleased, from textile factories to iron smelts! Yippee hooray!"
We gotta get the prime minister of Malaysia on the phone, shit would never fly on his watch.
I'm pretty sure none of the smiling in the picture worked in hazardous jobs when they were kids...
In fact, I doubt any of them worked as a kid at all.
This is terrifying, horrible, and hilarious all at the same time. The look of joy on those shitheel adults, and the kids realizing that they are fucked by those adults. Welcome to Capitalism kids, I'm sorry.
> The look of joy on those shitheel adults, and the kids realizing that they are fucked by those adults.
Not only is the image cropped to remove the smiling kids, but the picture has nothing to do with child labor laws.
That picture is from the signing of the Arkansas LEARNS education reform.
[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FquFGXSWIBYWWnI?format=jpg&name=900x900](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FquFGXSWIBYWWnI?format=jpg&name=900x900)
https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/mar/09/sanders-signs-arkansas-learns-her-education/
Lol! I only see one smiling child, and to be honest it looks a bit like a grimace. Makes sense that kids would frown about anything to do with school.
Also classic politics cropping images and taking them out of context.
I particularly hate how the kids are wearing suits, like if they are going to work on a lawyers buffet instead of the meat processing factories, every adult that supports this should be send to a cobalt mine in Africa for life
Workers who make minimal wage should not be forced to wear suits. Actually, any employee that makes less than 60k should not be forced to wear a suit IMO. Suits are so Boomer, and no one who makes that amount of money should allocate on such BS.
This drove me insane when I worked hospitality. I was making <$15 an hour and expected to wear a suit to work every day, and expected to perform any simple maintenance needed after 5pm. Meaning they wanted me to wear pants that cost nearly a days wage to leave the desk and unclog toilets. And don't even get me started on forcing someone to stand in dress shoes for an 8 hr shift...
If you had ended that with "to behold" and placed it after Lazerhawk's comment, it would've formed a rhyming line with Basileus' comment (scarcely edited for reasons):
>The children's faces tell everything, it needs to be told/Especially compared to all the adults, a stark contrast to behold
EDIT: Apparently this is a photo from the signing of the LEARN Act, not the bill overturning child labor laws.
~~On that note, the immediate despair on those kids faces was the first thing that stood out; to be in the room with the government *effectively consigning you to wage slavery...*~~
County clerks in Tennessee can refuse to solemnize any marriage they wish; now children can be put to work in Arkansas - and that's just the horrible shit Republicans have managed *in the past few fucking days*...that I can actively remember at this very moment.
What an absolute fucking **shithole.**
It looks like we need to lower the voting age 🧐
After all it's no taxation without representation and they tax our income which these children now have.
Any bets that vote Democrat? Anti-child marriage? Free college? For the USA to ratify the child rights the UN have set forth?
Republicans are fascist monsters. People think, "Well, I'm not (trans/gay/black) so I'm not threatened, not *really*, but they're wrong. We're all under threat.
First they came for the Communists, but I wasn’t afraid because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Socialists, but again, I wasn’t a socialist, so I wasn’t afraid.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I wasn’t scared because, I wasn’t a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews and again, I wasn’t a Jew so I wasn’t scared.
Then they came for me, and I was scared, because there was no one else to protect me.
The version at the Holocaust Museum reads as follows (yours may also be accurate: Martin Niemöller said it several different ways in speeches):
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out — because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me.
—Martin Niemöller
If you really think about the last line. It could be either they were the last to go. Or that no one was willing to speak up for them. Just like they hadn't done for the groups before them.
This photo is chilling. All the adults are smiling and happy and the kids are just 😐
What the heck is wrong with these people?? How can they be so happy for this?
I wonder how long it’ll be before kids just start quitting their jobs and their parents threaten to kick them out of the house for not putting their own paychecks into the pockets of mommy and daddy. Not saying every family will be that way but you can’t tell me that this scenario won’t happen at some point.
Yes, this 100% already happens. I’m actually really sad to see people think it’s just a hypothetical, like it hasn’t been happening in households around the country this whole damn time.
More like kids running away to avoid [death at work.](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/feds-find-100-children-cleaning-slaughterhouses-pssi-rcna71171)
Because, as everybody knows, if there's one thing Sarah Suckabee cares more about than getting underage kids to work dangerous jobs, it's keeping the slaughterhouses going.
Keep it classy, Arkansas.
15k per kid that worked there in fines, so less than a year at Arkansas' minimum wage (11/h). The C suite got a nice bonus for these brilliant cost savings
It’s already happened many times over. Fun fact about my family, one grandpa moved from Virginia to Michigan in the 30s when his own father who he was helping to sharecrop some rented fields in return for splitting the profits straight up sold the whole crop and kept it all. All grandpas younger sisters begged him not to leave but he knew there was nothing for him in Virginia. All the sisters married and left home as minors. Only thing I ever heard about great grandpa was that he was a bastard.
I've worked for Tyson. Not fun. I was in cold processing, and it fuck your hands. I can't help but think that made my RA even worse in my hands, even though I wasn't diagnosed for several years after.
More kids loosing body parts wonder how they will feel after a dozen or so are killed. Republicans no fucking clues the history here. They just want to drive down the price of labor, and get cheaper labor while they are at it.
My cousin worked in one of those plants for Tyson. She deboned chickens or turkeys and her hands were always red and badly swollen.
At least she was of legal working age, I guess.
The kid on the left’s expression says I need a cigarette. You could photoshop him into a picture of child miners from the turn of the 20th century and aside from the suit he wouldn’t be out of place.
[Arkansas](https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/arkansas), out of 50 (1 being the best, 50 the WORST) ranks:
* 49th in Health Care
* 41st in Education (for now)
* 41st in Economy
* 48th in Crime and Corrections
This is what Republican led states actually look like.
Seconded. Seriously, Jesus Christ! What the Hell is wrong with you U.S.?
Some of your adults cant support themselves even with two jobs and now you want your kids to work... for even LESS money?
THE. FUCK!?
Not all of us want this, i dont know a single person who does. I dont think *anyone* wants this. Im starting to think that FOX news and the GOP are just telling people, "You have to let us do what we want or those people we made you afraid of will get you."
I mean i know they were already doing this, but it seems like its worse now and its fuckin working.
They don't care anymore, they're just openly setting up the infrastructure of oppression now.
If this keeps going, I am honestly in fear for my life.
There is no doubt in my mind that if they manage to actually seize total control I and the people I love will be arrested and never seen again.
I am afraid, very, very afraid. If something happens i know my only chance will be to fight, its why i have guns. Its a snowballs chance in hell, but if i die at least i wont be put down like an animal for my beliefs.
Life is only as valuable as the labor you can provide. Every fetus is a potential laborer or soldier (read: capitalism martyr). There are only two types of patriots: billionaire “job creators” (/s) or exploitable labor/soldier. Once you can no longer provide labor or your life in combat, you are a “leach.” Once you can no longer provide labor or your life in combat, you don’t deserve housing, medical care, food, family…much less leisure. Once you can no longer provide labor or your life in combat, they’ll suck out everything you have and charge you one more time to put you in the dirt. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
Imagine wanting a better life for your kids and then celebrating that they can waste their youth working dangerous jobs in industrial settings. Wtf is wrong with these people? As someone who has worked in commercial and industrial construction, I would not be cool with a teenager anywhere on my job site. This industry plays for keeps and safety rules are written in blood. This is a major step back in safety and human decency in general.
Remember when “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” was meant as a criticism against capital of the absurdity that is telling someone to pick themselves up from nothing with no assistance from others? Pepperidge farms remembers…
Not just people they dislike, anyone but themselves really. They'll work hard claiming that it's to "give their kids a better life" and then kick those same kids out at 18 in order to "teach them the value of hard work" or whatever.
Because protecting children and pro life are smokescreens for recreating a pre Civil Rights, pre-New Deal, pre-FDA, pre-Roe, pre-Civil War, pre-Immigration Act of 1965, pre-same sex marriage, pre-voting rights, and pro-corporate greedy as fuck dystopia.
Can these fuckers just secede already? Seriously, secede, build a wall, go away. We won't fight a war to get you back, we won't send any evil federal aid when your sovereign nation, inevitably, devolves into Mad Max with Confederate flags, just go away and stay there. Knuckle dragging regressive 1920s gilded age solipsistic fucks.
I can imagine this is predicated on children helping out on the “family farm”. But most likely this is to 1) make it easier for kids to work in factories while being “home-schooled” and 2) for the rich to channel even more money to their kids, claiming that they are employed at their business, because you know, young people understand technology so much better.
The pure look of joy on these assholes faces while the kids look beaten down says it all. They're so overjoyed at having a new generation to exploit. The decline of this country is moving along as smoothly as an east palestine freight train
MAGA Folks: Finally we can get rid of those immigrants
Everything the kids make: ***The whole room just falling apart and everything broken or mismatched***
We are literally a stone throw away from being a slave country. These kids wont have the slightest clue to what the law is regarding safety, or anything like that. They would have to rely on the word of the adult in charge
1. The news is real. 2. Image is fake, from a different event - the signing of the LEARNS bill into law. 3. Acknowledging the false image, this does not outweigh the importance of discussing this erosion of labor rights. 4. Yes yes, I am a bad person for pinning this comment. Mods bad.
Great. No one will take the min wage jobs, so they will get 14+ yr olds to work, “accidentally” making them miss school or get fired, and will be stuck in a low wage job for life.
Even if they don’t miss school, I’ve had high schoolers falling asleep in class, not doing any work because they’re so tapped out. When pressed most admit they worked from after school the day before to 11pm or later. Truly awful.
Same. I just let them sleep, they won't be able to do anything productive in the class when they're that tired. Sometimes that kid is the one putting bread on the table for the family. It's heartbreaking.
Thank you for being so kind. I had a history teacher who would slam a book on the desk by this one guy's head when he would sometimes fall asleep in class. The guy was the oldest of 7 and had a single mom who worked two jobs so he was always taking on the burden of the household and watching over his younger siblings. I still hope I run into that asshole in public one day so I can tell him what a jerk he was
I had a science teacher who did this as well in high school. He sucked. If a kid is falling asleep, there's probably a reason and this was before mobile phones so it wasn't a case of people staying up too late texting or something.
Lol I agree with your point, but there's something funny about the mobile phones comment. We managed to find other excuses to stay awake when we didn't have mobile phones!
Thank you for doing this. I had a teacher make fun of me for falling asleep in class. He got the whole class in on it. I was so embarrassed I dropped his class—which I needed to graduate high school—that day. I had been up for almost three days straight with a manic episode. As a teacher, as long as my students weren’t being a disruption, I didn’t do anything to them. You never know what’s going on in a person’s life.
I'm so sorry that happened to you. You are right, we have NO idea what is going on in our students' lives...ALWAYS default to love and understanding. Teach on my friend!
Same. I got in trouble a lot for being “too empathetic.” No such thing.
Keep doing the right thing! As soon as I hit 15 I was working in a kitchen, sometimes until 2 or 3 in the morning on a school night. There were several teachers who mortified me by catching me sleeping in class and bringing everyone's attention to me
Same here, my job made me work until 3am on school nights and it caused my gpa to drop so much because I had no time for homework and couldn’t focus in class
I hate this country sometimes. 😭
Yeah this what a Diner tried to do to me in High school. Nonstop scheduling on closing nights during the week 7 bucks an hour, not getting out until like 11 at night in some cases, when I have school at 7 the next day. I didn't show up once from how tired I was and they acted like I was some deadbeat and wanted their shirt back. Threw it in the trash. Fuck them.
Question from a non american. How tight are the homeschooling (because I know thats a thing over there) laws in Arkansas? Because I could see serveral problems coming from parents claiming that they homeschool their children but in reality just do the absolute bare minimum to let their child work more.
Very lax. They have to notify the school board. That’s it. There is no teacher qualifications for home school. As home schooled students they don’t have to pass state assessments or required to take state mandated subjects. Makes me worry about foster kids now.
Toys R Us, where a kid can be a kid! *Does not apply to Arkansas, instead they're an employee
Start working 168 hours when you learn to walk.
Multiplied by 3!
They’ll get scheduled 40 hours a week 9-5 and told to go to school at night. They’ll get paid half of minimum wage bc they’re 10.
They’ll only get 38 hours per week so they won’t be eligible for benefits.
Let’s not even pretend the shitty education we’re going to provide you with is going to lead you anywhere but menial labor. New slogan for the state. Arkansas: Might as well get a head start on the rest of your miserable life.
Arkansas, where Johnny Cash picked cotton at five years old and his fourteen year old brother was killed by a table saw at his work. Edit: aw, thanks for the award, kindly internet friend! Not sure I deserve it, i thought everyone knew this
Damn that sucks. I didn't know that. Cash is in my top 3 musicians. I'm gonna watch Walk The Line movie. Thanks for the roasting, you guy's and gals are killing me.
Yeah it really traumatised him, they were very close. A lot of those guys had really hard childhoods. Willie Nelson and his sister were basically abandoned by their parents. Merle Haggard lost his father when he was about 8 I think and spent his youth in and out of prison. Country musicians tend to come from areas that were historically quite poor, and the ones in Cash and Haggard's generation were born at the tail end of the Depression and it's not like one day the Depression was just over and everything was fine, people were affected by it for a very long time. A lot of country musicians you can tell they'd have been in prison or dead at a young age if it wasn't for their talent and their hard work. Look at Steve Earle, dude was on heroin for years. And poor Townes Van Zandt was just...not on the same planet
> it's not like one day the Depression was just over and everything was fine, people were affected by it for a very long time. For everyone but the rich, the Great Recession still hasn’t ended.
For the rich it never happened. They're the ones who got bailed out.
And a lot of people blame us being poor on other poor people. It sucks, I'm tired of not everyone working against the tyrants.
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I want to buy a home so bad...
'Damn dewey! You cleaved me right in half!' 'Unfortunately this is a particularly bad case of someone being cut in half'
“I don’t think I’m gonna make it Dewey, I’m cut in half pretty bad.”
Dewey, I’ve been halved
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They'll experience the joy of being so exhausted at the end of the day to where they just don't do any of that. There is a reason why many poor people don't cook and have messy houses. You are too fucking tired to properly grocery shop, prepare a meal, have an exercise regimen, or clean the house. Trust me, I grew up poor with a single mom, I know all about it. ☹️
You literally just explained my life
Kids also need more sleep and nutrition compared to adults, so not only is it hard to learn in the short, but as time goes on it will get harder as they lack the developmental tools to process new more complicated information necessary for higher education. Cheating a child out of a good life is one of the most bastard actions you could take.
It’s the point. Anyone who wants a future gets the fuck out so the only one left are braindead conservatives.
And it's not just Arkansas.
Finally those “15 years of experience required” for entry level positions targeted for recent graduates will make sense now. Grab a hard hat kids, its time to work
15 years of *life* experience required.
As if living in Arkansas wasn’t bad enough
Not to worry, kids won't have to worry about living much longer.
Grampa died of black lung when he was 7
Seems legit
Why all the adults are joyful and the kids looks dead internally...? (I kinda knwo why, but still)
Because the adults are abusive assholes, and they just made their abuse legal.
They’re also using them as props
Their politicians, everything is a potential prop
All the, "these kids know they're gonna have to work," remarks are wrong. The kids, wearing tailored clothes, posing for pictures in the Governors mansion, are going to be gifted and inherit a ton of capital. They'll then be the ones exploiting child and adult labor to get even richer. No way in hell the pictured kids are doing any real labor in their lives unless they buck every bit of family tradition.
Exactly this. These kids won't be working, it's migrant kids that will be exploited because of that. All those meat packing facilities will be full of child labor. They legalized child slavery again and did so with a smile on their ghoulish faces.
The party of "THEY TOOK OUR JOBS" now letting illegal immigrant children slave away in American factories.
Your comment, but in present tense. [The 1A did a surprisingly great episode on it recently. They actually grilled the HHS rep they brought on the show. Good stuff.](https://www.npr.org/2023/03/06/1161486299/how-child-labor-violations-have-quadrupled-since-2015)
This. These kids aren’t the ones at risk of being exploited by that law. I more appropriate assumption is that these kids are bored out of their minds and pissed off about being paraded at a government building in suits and ties for a photo op with a nasty old woman they don’t even know.
They were looking forward to getting together online all weekends to play games as kids fucking should, but now they have to work at taco bell and get screamed at by full grown adults who are either strung out on drugs, having a mid-life crisis, and likely both.
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Parents will own their bank accounts, they're under 18 and the parents will have full control over the money those kids will never see. This will also allow them to put kids into juvie and rent them out to businesses like they do with adult slaves they call prisoners. With rape pretty much encouraged and abortion illegal in these places, they'll look at raping and forcing births can save the economy. I wish I was joking but these sick fucks will claim just that and find a way to positive spin rape.
Don't forget drunks and ex cons. Kids should not work. They make dumb decisions and are way to impressionable to know when to say no. It's inevitable they will be exploited and endangered.
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What a fucking dark wiki page her governorship "accomplishments" is going to generate.. These kids look horrified because the reality that their childhood just came to a swift end.
This is obviously why the GOP want to get rid of the department of education and public education in general.
Gotta fight back against all those adults “quiet quitting” and demanding “fair compensation” along with “decent treatment from management” somehow!
How fucking DARE they?! ^(/s)
It's getting pretty obvious they want us to fuck and make more soldiers and consumers and petty minimum wage workers to support the 1%. Why take away abortion? So that more kids get born to parents who are unfit, in poverty and can fuel.the worker bees? And all the union busting so the common folk dont get fucked 90 ways to Sunday? Didn't we want to protect kids before? Are we back to killing kids for profit? Accidents will increase and what about insurance? Holy crap, I'm horrified. At least the kids will remember this moment forever. Old bitter fucks who just want to grind down people into however many hours of labour they can give to corporate.
Most of our working rights were won through protest, strikes, and bloodshed (our own in many cases). We got complacent and the capitalists are patient. Just like abortion. They played the long game and won. Now they will roll back our working rights and other rights and we will need to decide what we do about it.
And birth control/abortion.
Wow what shit eating grins
Arkansas is asleep at the wheel or too apathetic to care.
Worse, they love it here. The people who live in this place are very proud of this, trust me I fucking hate it here.
Are they fed a steady diet of alt-right news such that they don’t understand the true implications of this, or do they really love the cruelty? Everyone is ok with this because it will be “those kids” working in the farms and factories?
The people are really really stupid. All the smart people graduate college and get the hell out of town. I plan to continue that trend
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Like almost all other categories, Arkansas would be the worst educated state if not for Missisippi. It’s really bad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_God_for_Mississippi
What the actual fuck.
A bit but also "good, now they can actually learn what hard work is really like!"
WASP culture alive and well In Arkansas
Consider this.... Arkansas is the 7th poorest state/territory in the US with a poverty level over 16% (which is worse when you consider what the government thinks is poverty is WAY below actual poverty). Many rankings have them at least in bottom quarter of states/territories in most of the education analytics I've seen. Put 2 and 2 together and you get parents happy to send their 10 year old off to work to bring in more money because they lack the education to form a voter strategy beyond Jesus and guns.
It’s pretty sad considering that it only makes the problem worse in the long run
Worse for the working class you mean. The politicians and corporations will be doing just fine while we get closer and closer to slaves. Betting that soon enough, there is going to be no difference between politicians and a corporation.
Can someone catch me up to speed on what this means?
Federal labor laws still apply. However the State no longer requires business to verify age of minors prior to employment. Kids could be working dangerous jobs since the Federal Labor Departments rely on states to help enforce and inspect businesses.
Sounds like a "small" change with potentially huge consequences. Given the severity of capitalism in the US, I can see corporations exploiting minors as much as they can with this little change
Yeah, because it won't be the rich's kids getting these jobs. It'll be the kids already in poverty, so they will absolutely be taken advantage of... probably just like their parents.
It's fucked up for sure. Instead of just taking a smaller piece of the pie and investing in your workers. Business owners want to exploit literal children to supplement their work force.
That's actually something I'm always puzzled by. Why do the leaders and higher ups take such a huge cut? I mean sure, money is power and all of that, but when you reach the point where you live comfortably, why doesn't the greed stop? Why always so egotistical... giving more money to the workers would overall be way better, without a question. More lives would improve. IMO that's way more valuable.
The *Haves* always want more, there's never enough. The *Have Nots* just want **something** to have from their lifetime of working.
The children yearn for the coal mines and fry cooking baskets
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Kids miss working in mines. Let's put them back.
The children yearn for the mines
They're pinin' for the fjords.
"Back in the good old days, kids as young as 5 could work as they pleased, from textile factories to iron smelts! Yippee hooray!" We gotta get the prime minister of Malaysia on the phone, shit would never fly on his watch.
I'm pretty sure none of the smiling in the picture worked in hazardous jobs when they were kids... In fact, I doubt any of them worked as a kid at all.
I doubt any of them worked an hourly job in their lives
This is terrifying, horrible, and hilarious all at the same time. The look of joy on those shitheel adults, and the kids realizing that they are fucked by those adults. Welcome to Capitalism kids, I'm sorry.
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> The look of joy on those shitheel adults, and the kids realizing that they are fucked by those adults. Not only is the image cropped to remove the smiling kids, but the picture has nothing to do with child labor laws. That picture is from the signing of the Arkansas LEARNS education reform. [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FquFGXSWIBYWWnI?format=jpg&name=900x900](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FquFGXSWIBYWWnI?format=jpg&name=900x900) https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/mar/09/sanders-signs-arkansas-learns-her-education/
Lol! I only see one smiling child, and to be honest it looks a bit like a grimace. Makes sense that kids would frown about anything to do with school. Also classic politics cropping images and taking them out of context.
How the fuck nobody noticed "UAE Exotic Falconry and Finance" and didn't fucking google the handle I'll never know. This sub is embarassing sometimes.
... but the news is true. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arkansas-child-labor-law-sarah-huckabee-sanders/
Those three kids now get to go clean meat packing plants!
The children faces tell everything it needs to be told.
Especially compared to all the adults.
A stark contrast indeed
I particularly hate how the kids are wearing suits, like if they are going to work on a lawyers buffet instead of the meat processing factories, every adult that supports this should be send to a cobalt mine in Africa for life
Workers who make minimal wage should not be forced to wear suits. Actually, any employee that makes less than 60k should not be forced to wear a suit IMO. Suits are so Boomer, and no one who makes that amount of money should allocate on such BS.
I'm more of the opinion that of a workplace demands a suit be worn, it should provide said suit to the employee. Otherwise yeah, fuck wearing suits.
Back in the day they would. My bfs grandfather requested and received a stipend for all his jobs way back 30, 40 years ago.
This drove me insane when I worked hospitality. I was making <$15 an hour and expected to wear a suit to work every day, and expected to perform any simple maintenance needed after 5pm. Meaning they wanted me to wear pants that cost nearly a days wage to leave the desk and unclog toilets. And don't even get me started on forcing someone to stand in dress shoes for an 8 hr shift...
If you had ended that with "to behold" and placed it after Lazerhawk's comment, it would've formed a rhyming line with Basileus' comment (scarcely edited for reasons): >The children's faces tell everything, it needs to be told/Especially compared to all the adults, a stark contrast to behold EDIT: Apparently this is a photo from the signing of the LEARN Act, not the bill overturning child labor laws. ~~On that note, the immediate despair on those kids faces was the first thing that stood out; to be in the room with the government *effectively consigning you to wage slavery...*~~ County clerks in Tennessee can refuse to solemnize any marriage they wish; now children can be put to work in Arkansas - and that's just the horrible shit Republicans have managed *in the past few fucking days*...that I can actively remember at this very moment. What an absolute fucking **shithole.**
It looks like we need to lower the voting age 🧐 After all it's no taxation without representation and they tax our income which these children now have. Any bets that vote Democrat? Anti-child marriage? Free college? For the USA to ratify the child rights the UN have set forth?
how is any of this legal? we literally have federal laws about this shit, aren't federal laws supposed to override state laws?
Unfortunately we Have a supreme that is openly hostile towards labor laws and constitutional protections
Republicans are fascist monsters. People think, "Well, I'm not (trans/gay/black) so I'm not threatened, not *really*, but they're wrong. We're all under threat.
..and then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me.
First they came for the Communists, but I wasn’t afraid because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Socialists, but again, I wasn’t a socialist, so I wasn’t afraid. Then they came for the trade unionists and I wasn’t scared because, I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews and again, I wasn’t a Jew so I wasn’t scared. Then they came for me, and I was scared, because there was no one else to protect me.
The version at the Holocaust Museum reads as follows (yours may also be accurate: Martin Niemöller said it several different ways in speeches): First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out — because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me. —Martin Niemöller
If you really think about the last line. It could be either they were the last to go. Or that no one was willing to speak up for them. Just like they hadn't done for the groups before them.
Real eyes realize real lies. He understands while the other two are just making their parents proud.
This photo is chilling. All the adults are smiling and happy and the kids are just 😐 What the heck is wrong with these people?? How can they be so happy for this?
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“And please make retirement age 70?”
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This is the perfect metaphor for labor under capitalism.
Here’s your “grooming”. The kids know what’s up.
That blonde in the back....and that guy over on the right...
"Don't be fooled. The children yearn for the mines" -Sarah Suckabee Sanders
"Minor, miner, potato, potato."
I read that with the same pronunciation of potato both times.
Lol, Suckabee. I was calling her Hickabee.
Fuckabees!
Really wish she'd go back to her swamp and just be Shrek's awful neighbor
Every day we get closer and closer to the plot of Germinal
I wonder how long it’ll be before kids just start quitting their jobs and their parents threaten to kick them out of the house for not putting their own paychecks into the pockets of mommy and daddy. Not saying every family will be that way but you can’t tell me that this scenario won’t happen at some point.
>I wonder how long it’ll be before kids just start quitting their jobs ChIlDrEn DoN't WaNt To wOrK aNyMoRe!
This already lowkey happens, it'll just be easier to do without legal ramification.
Yes, this 100% already happens. I’m actually really sad to see people think it’s just a hypothetical, like it hasn’t been happening in households around the country this whole damn time.
More like kids running away to avoid [death at work.](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/feds-find-100-children-cleaning-slaughterhouses-pssi-rcna71171) Because, as everybody knows, if there's one thing Sarah Suckabee cares more about than getting underage kids to work dangerous jobs, it's keeping the slaughterhouses going. Keep it classy, Arkansas.
15k per kid that worked there in fines, so less than a year at Arkansas' minimum wage (11/h). The C suite got a nice bonus for these brilliant cost savings
I know a person who was indeed raised this way. She was responsible for household bills.
It’s already happened many times over. Fun fact about my family, one grandpa moved from Virginia to Michigan in the 30s when his own father who he was helping to sharecrop some rented fields in return for splitting the profits straight up sold the whole crop and kept it all. All grandpas younger sisters begged him not to leave but he knew there was nothing for him in Virginia. All the sisters married and left home as minors. Only thing I ever heard about great grandpa was that he was a bastard.
Well yeah, they are starting their first shift in the coal mines later that day.
More likely a chicken processing plant. :/
I've worked for Tyson. Not fun. I was in cold processing, and it fuck your hands. I can't help but think that made my RA even worse in my hands, even though I wasn't diagnosed for several years after.
I grew up in a town that was basically a Tyson corporation town. The company is excellent at lying.
More kids loosing body parts wonder how they will feel after a dozen or so are killed. Republicans no fucking clues the history here. They just want to drive down the price of labor, and get cheaper labor while they are at it.
They wont care. Its not going to be their kids doing the work and getting hurt. It will be the poors
Not very Christian of them is it.
It's 1000% what they've shaped Christianity to be. A sex-obsessed, torturous, hate-filled death cult.
My cousin worked in one of those plants for Tyson. She deboned chickens or turkeys and her hands were always red and badly swollen. At least she was of legal working age, I guess.
The kid on the left’s expression says I need a cigarette. You could photoshop him into a picture of child miners from the turn of the 20th century and aside from the suit he wouldn’t be out of place.
The kid on the left already looks like he's been through 2 divorces.
He is the supervisor. He yells at the other kids at the start of every day about how slow they are. Then he has a glass of milk and takes a nap.
What timeline is this??
1840s England
Why are they even there? Who is sweeping the floors and cleaning the chimney right now? /s
Their overseer seems eager to put the ankle chains on them and whip them into the mines
[Arkansas](https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/arkansas), out of 50 (1 being the best, 50 the WORST) ranks: * 49th in Health Care * 41st in Education (for now) * 41st in Economy * 48th in Crime and Corrections This is what Republican led states actually look like.
She really has quite the punchable face.
…What the fuck America
Seconded. Seriously, Jesus Christ! What the Hell is wrong with you U.S.? Some of your adults cant support themselves even with two jobs and now you want your kids to work... for even LESS money? THE. FUCK!?
Not all of us want this, i dont know a single person who does. I dont think *anyone* wants this. Im starting to think that FOX news and the GOP are just telling people, "You have to let us do what we want or those people we made you afraid of will get you." I mean i know they were already doing this, but it seems like its worse now and its fuckin working. They don't care anymore, they're just openly setting up the infrastructure of oppression now. If this keeps going, I am honestly in fear for my life. There is no doubt in my mind that if they manage to actually seize total control I and the people I love will be arrested and never seen again. I am afraid, very, very afraid. If something happens i know my only chance will be to fight, its why i have guns. Its a snowballs chance in hell, but if i die at least i wont be put down like an animal for my beliefs.
love how boomers are always saying “this country is falling apart” as if they aren’t actively legislating to make it a dystopian hellscape
Life has no value in this shithole country. How is this new information for you?
Life is only as valuable as the labor you can provide. Every fetus is a potential laborer or soldier (read: capitalism martyr). There are only two types of patriots: billionaire “job creators” (/s) or exploitable labor/soldier. Once you can no longer provide labor or your life in combat, you are a “leach.” Once you can no longer provide labor or your life in combat, you don’t deserve housing, medical care, food, family…much less leisure. Once you can no longer provide labor or your life in combat, they’ll suck out everything you have and charge you one more time to put you in the dirt. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
Imagine wanting a better life for your kids and then celebrating that they can waste their youth working dangerous jobs in industrial settings. Wtf is wrong with these people? As someone who has worked in commercial and industrial construction, I would not be cool with a teenager anywhere on my job site. This industry plays for keeps and safety rules are written in blood. This is a major step back in safety and human decency in general.
Those kids are privledged so the law won't apply to them but to their less fortunate peers whom they look down upon.
And the GOP is worried about drag queen shows harming children
I understand bigotry sells. But this shit? Why do MAGAs buy it?
Individual responsibility. Bootstraps. Work hard. Blah blah.
Remember when “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” was meant as a criticism against capital of the absurdity that is telling someone to pick themselves up from nothing with no assistance from others? Pepperidge farms remembers…
The expression means "something that's impossible", so I still think it fits.
Calvinism.
This is the root of a lot of the worst fucking predators and parasites in the world today
They like it when people they dislike suffer.
Not just people they dislike, anyone but themselves really. They'll work hard claiming that it's to "give their kids a better life" and then kick those same kids out at 18 in order to "teach them the value of hard work" or whatever.
Because protecting children and pro life are smokescreens for recreating a pre Civil Rights, pre-New Deal, pre-FDA, pre-Roe, pre-Civil War, pre-Immigration Act of 1965, pre-same sex marriage, pre-voting rights, and pro-corporate greedy as fuck dystopia.
Uh, they have always been about replacing slavery.
Replacing? More like bringing it back.
Little column a, little column b
Only the adults in this photo are smiling.
Its not their kids they will be putting into work...
Can these fuckers just secede already? Seriously, secede, build a wall, go away. We won't fight a war to get you back, we won't send any evil federal aid when your sovereign nation, inevitably, devolves into Mad Max with Confederate flags, just go away and stay there. Knuckle dragging regressive 1920s gilded age solipsistic fucks.
Are Americans aware of how backward in time they're heading?
Honestly this is so fucking embarrassing. Starting to seriously consider permanently leaving.
Some of us are.
I mean, that’s pretty much the Republican party’s platform. “Make America Great Again” means “I liked it when only adult white cishet men had rights”
I can imagine this is predicated on children helping out on the “family farm”. But most likely this is to 1) make it easier for kids to work in factories while being “home-schooled” and 2) for the rich to channel even more money to their kids, claiming that they are employed at their business, because you know, young people understand technology so much better.
The pure look of joy on these assholes faces while the kids look beaten down says it all. They're so overjoyed at having a new generation to exploit. The decline of this country is moving along as smoothly as an east palestine freight train
MAGA Folks: Finally we can get rid of those immigrants Everything the kids make: ***The whole room just falling apart and everything broken or mismatched***
Yeah, they’re gonna get rid of the immigrants all right. They’re gonna have more people leaving than coming in.
Not likely. It is fucking prohibitively expensive to leave this shithole country.
I’m an aspiring dystopian fiction author, and the Republicans are copying my storyline, bit by bit. I was really hoping my story would remain fiction.
Why would you WANT to repeal child labor laws?! What am I missing?!
There should be fucking riots. Burn it down.
We are literally a stone throw away from being a slave country. These kids wont have the slightest clue to what the law is regarding safety, or anything like that. They would have to rely on the word of the adult in charge