Quick! Call Elwood! There's Child Labor in Alabama!

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  1. Tuckerfan

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    In a metal stamping plant!
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    There's about to be a whole lot more labor and children in Alabama, and the Supreme Court says you can't stop it.
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    You know the supply chain is fucked when they have to start exploiting child workers in factories here in the states instead of in china.

    The one thing I do not understand is how are were having trouble with the supply of everything but foreign child labor?

    So we are going to bring manufacturing back to the US, and we are bringing in slaves instead of employees.

    The biggest lie I have ever been told is that morals and ethics are a part of human society. Individual people may have them, but not our group entities.
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    The NLRB has been so effectively neutered that child labor is illegal in name only these days. I try to remind people who say "this isn't America!" that not only is this America, but it was America for a long time, and lots of kids were maimed or died while working in factories, mines, and other dangerous occupations. Meanwhile, much of our chocolate, diamonds, and other precious commodities often comes via the hands of child slavery. Hell, I got my first job at 14, working in a landscaping nursery.
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    Golly gee, how can you say such a thing? Why, killing a child in a factory carries a penalty of a whopping $50,000! That might cost a CEO 1% of next year's bonus!
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    Yes I can see child labor being made legal very soon. Republicans will pitch it as a way to reduce school shootings.
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    Well, the lazy-ass millennials won't work for shit wages anymore, how the hell else are they supposed to continue making record profits?
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    Immature kids working in machine shops? UA should be worried about being replaced.

    Seriously though, fuck Alabama. It's like they take every opportunity to show that capitalism isn't kept moral by the invisible hand of the market.
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    What I want to know is who is bringing these kids to the plant? If this is the plant I have seen in GA there was nothing around there for a few miles. You would have to drive to get there. Maybe they should be talking to the local school about not bringing the slave child labor there after class?
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    There is part of me that is bothered that children in their teens are so coddled. Yes, I get this is a poor child who is being forced into labor rather than being able to slowly join the workforce while in school.

    The first thing I got when I was 14 was my work papers and an after school job. I did not have to. My parents put it simply. If you want a TV in your room, or a stereo in your room then you go buy one or wait for christmas. You are going to want a car and to go places, get a job and save. I knew my grandparents were going to give me money for a car, or I could ask for anything and probably get it. I got to work.

    It was freedom from my parents. It was allowing me to connect with adults. Some of those high school problems go away when you are working and realize high school is high school. All of a sudden I had another world where I wasn't the person everyone picked on. The adults knew I was young, but treated me like a person.

    Also many of those hours i was not sitting at home worried about what to do and looking to drugs or dumbshit behaviors to pass the time.

    The poor kids need relief and this kid should not be forced to work like this. However, the upper middle class kids could have used more work because thinking college was going to be the only thing you needed to get by fucked a lot of them.
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    I few years back when I was cashiering at Home Depot a nicely dressed lady asked me if I knew where she could hire some Mexicans (sic). I asked her to explain and she said that most Home Depots had "Mexicans" hanging around their parking lots waiting for a chance to do some farm work. I remember thinking "what do I look like, a pimp?" But I assured her that we didn't have any of those in stock and she left and I kept my job. :brood:
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