No no, you don't understand, the free market sets wages! If the boss can't find workers at the rate they set then they have to ~~raise wages~~ ....hire children!!
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Reason number 11,462,821 why you can never, under any circumstances, trust conservatives with power.
William Blake's The Chimney Sweeper (1789) entered the chat
When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could scarcely cry " 'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!"
So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep.
Is this the beginning of child slavery?
No, itโs the child slavery 2.0 electric boogaloo
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onion right? right? turning the debate on "free meals to school kids" to "should we feed kids working in the mines". Nice progression M'URICAH
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Get rid of those doing the jobs that are vital and pretend that the solution is to make teenagers rightsless workers.
Nothing says "freedom" like 1920s labor laws.
Read the fine print tho: "Due to lack of migrant workers." What's that again? Lack of migrants you say? Whatever could be causing that?
Florida sliding further backwards doesn't surprise me at all.
But on a good note it looks like Florida's Free Kill Law might finally be ending after 35 years of horrors to all the Floridians and tourists caught in it's trap, no thanks to the Republicans though.
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It also wants to starve children! FREEDUM
Not just children. Anyone who isnโt rich, white, cis, straight, and Christian. If youโre not rich, then you must be a piece of shit, and you deserve nothing, not even the most basic human dignity.
Reason #8,994 why I left FL. My tax dollars no longer contribute to this shit.
Florida's new State motto is "The Most Cruelty Under the Sun"
Why are they doing this? What do these people need so badly that they think this is a good idea?
What do these people need so badly that they think this is a good idea?
"Wage slaves" is the only answer I've found that fits the available information. Some of them are being misled by others, but some must understand the impacts of what they're asking for.
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How else are they going to teach those leeches how to fend for themselves?
I hope the sarcasm is obvious there.
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