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@dirtmayor saying its easier for teenagers to find a job, particularly in the u.s. with an all-time high of teenage unemployment, sure sounds different when you call it “child labor on the rise.”
In February, the Labor Department announced that it had found more than a hundred children between the ages of thirteen and seventeen working in meatpacking plants and slaughterhouses, in eight states, for Packers Sanitation Services, one of the nation’s largest food-sanitation companies.
Thirteen year old children working in meatpacking plants seems like a problem.
@dirtmayor I’m unaware of any state where that is legal, unless some states consider meatpacking agricultural work. Of course, being illegal doesn’t stop it from happening. Regardless, artificial age limits for particular practices is pretty silly. I know plenty of people under 16 who have no problem driving a car, and plenty of those over 30, and even more over 60, that have no business doing so. Competency knowns no age, anything else is just you being a busybody against your neighbor.
When I was 14 my parents told me that if I didn’t work on the family farm in Oklahoma they would cut off my water. So I did. That’s legal. Seems like a problem to me.
@dirtmayor what part of OK? everywhere I have been would be pretty tough for farming, more ranching country.
Wakita. They shot parts of the movie twister there. The scenes where they wrecked the town, that was real. They basically totaled main Street and put a combine on top of a building. It was something to see. I never saw Bill Paxton 😟
@dirtmayor there are no age limits at all for your own kids that I’m aware of. I also grew up on a farm.
I wasn’t a fan
@dirtmayor that’s why I went to college so I wouldn’t have to be a farmer. And that’s why I loved being able to get a job in town.
I’m glad you got the job you wanted and neither of us has to be famers anymore 😉