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[–] [email protected] 111 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

He truly lived the life of an American:

He worked in a local grain elevator. At some point, he injured his hands there. It stripped his hands, and the doctors told him they would have to cut off his fingers. He told them, ‘I’ll die before you cut off my fingers.’ His hands got better, although they were scarred and a little messed up.

But he did go to college, build a house, and feed a family, all with a single manual laborer's income.

https://morningsonmaplestreet.com/2016/10/13/harold-jewel-walker-geronimo-oklahoma-2/

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

I wish I was as lucky as the 5 year old cotton picker.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

"Children grow up too fast today"

[–] [email protected] 62 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The problem is voters who imagine they’ll be the wealthy landowners and not working in the fields.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'd venture the problem's more the rich "landowners" took over both the voting apparatus (so voters only get to vote between reps the landowners approve of) and that the landowners also own the news, the best means to disseminate that information (keeping voters from ever understanding the level of power those landowners wield)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

User name checks out. Based explanation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's the common explanation but is it true? Voters have seen the poverty under Communism and they know that they are going to pay the taxes for all government handouts.

Voters are not stupid. It's not enough to be against wealthy landowners. There needs to be a realistic vision for a better future.

Additionally, most voters at least sense that the west is living on exploitation of the third world. If you choose justice, many good things will come to an end.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Last time I checked, according to surveys, most Americans don't actually believe in trickle down economics. Some probably do, but most don't.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

That's a blast from the past! The US version Anglicized her and removed her hands (too much like praying?)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Interesting!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Does the second one really look more anglican?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Does to me, or rather, she looks less anime styled. The intent might have been to make her look older, but it makes her look more Western cartoon styled.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago

And in about 15 years, Harry's family will be forced to move to California when the soil they're working is dried up and carried off in big black clouds by the wind.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Child farm labor is not unique to capitalism

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Sir, this is a Lemmy’s.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Except it is unique to american capitalism, yes. Except child farm labor* is unique to capitalism - * labor being that he is exploited so someone can profit. Kids picking family farms is not “child labor.”

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Not only is it not unique to capitalism, it's DEFINITELY not unique to America lmao

labor being that he is exploited so someone can profit

That's not what labor means lol

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Also

Kids picking family farms is not “child labor.”

Yes it fucking is. What the hell. What else would it be? The fact that it's the parents directly exploiting their children does not make it better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A corporation owning capital is hiring children to labor while they knowingly exploit them.

A parent exploiting their children to work in a family plot is also a form of child labor but it is not the same. Nor is it capitalist

Both are abusing children.

Both deserve prison.

But only one is capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

You're splitting hairs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You have a fundamental misunderstanding of what labor is, especially in regards to this picture. A) this is an american picture, it’s therefore unique to America. B) the child is laboring for someone’s profit. This is, sure, part of feudalism, but the system under which the picture is taken is capitalism.

Do you also think the kid is pushing out a baby because they are “laboring”?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"Domestic labour" is a term that refutes the point you're trying to make. Labour just means effort, there's no implicit connection to profit. In fact women's labour has traditionally been unpaid forever, but it's still work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sigh. Capitalist labor is different than domestic labor than birth labor etc.

Do you also think buffalos have wings?

Stop being a thick ass.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Woah no need to bring the cheeks into it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Does that somehow make it better?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago

I mean, obviously. They had no other choice after the woke mob and their "slavery is bad, mkay" destroyed the entire workforce market!!!

(/s, just in case)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago

You guys just want to deprive him of his freedom to work. How else is going to earn the money to feed himself?

(Sarcasm for the dim bulbs)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

A capitalist will look at this and think "What work ethic! He's setting a precedent for other kids his age."

A sane person will look at this and think "we must not let something like this happen again."

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

The children.... they crave the mines.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

Anyone picked cotton? If not, you have no idea what you would be getting into.

See that cute, fluffy little cotton boll? See the brown, dried out petals? That are hard as iron and Ginsu sharp. First time picking, had one slide under my finger like a hypodermic needle. Even treated, it was infected for almost 3 weeks and I couldn't bend it.

Now go fast! And don't wuss out and just get the tops, you gotta dig in there and get it all. At least a kid doesn't have to bend over double. 🤷🏻

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

“He talked about helping his father in the fields. He was pulled out of school at about the eighth grade and forced to work in the fields. That was the name of the game. His father needed him to do that, so he did. However, I want you to know that he went back at a later time and finished high school.” –Lynda Baxter, daughter of Harold Walker

Dude was living 90 years was married 3 times and have one daughter. I wish everybody at least the same long happy life. https://morningsonmaplestreet.com/2016/10/13/harold-jewel-walker-geronimo-oklahoma-2/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How the hell do you get a 5-year-old to do that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Capitalism isn’t perfect but it’s better than socialism and communism

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Does it be all or nothing? That seems silly

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

As a born and raised capitalist, you're making a fool of yourself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

How does one become so dense?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago