“People don’t want to work anymore.” in one hand. “Children can help fix the labor shortage.” in the other.
Just ways to beat people into submission with whatever words sound good in the moment.
Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers’ jobs with children: ‘It’s insane, right?’
Submitted 2 days ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to workreform@lemmy.world
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/florida-republicans-immigrant-jobs-child-labor
Comments
mhague@lemmy.world 2 days ago
AtariDump@lemmy.world 2 days ago
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 2 days ago
No one wants to work. It’s true. We are all forced to work and the people who don’t see this are also the ones at the top who don’t do actual work.
SacredHeartAttack@lemmy.world 2 days ago
“…always has been.” 🔫
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
“nobody wants to work”
True, that’s why you have to pay them to get them to do it.
brightandshinyobject@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Spoiler alert, nobody ever wanted to work, that’s why you have to pay us.
perestroika@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Summary of what I understood:
- Florida work force: 27% born in foreign countries
- Florida farm workers: 60% born in foreign countries
- Florida state: eager to persecute immigrants
Proposal:
- allow child labour for unlimited hours (if home schooled or distance learning)
- allow 30 hours per week during study sessions
- allow 6 days of consecutive work
- allow work during school hours
- allow early and late work, even if school next day
- allow more than 8 hours per day, even if school next day
That seems 19th century stuff. Back then, in the bad old times, anarchists shot politcians and workers had street battles with cops over this kind of minor issues.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You know those kids are pretty small as well, I’m sure they can work with chimeys a lot better than an adult.
macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 2 days ago
*labor. Not lab our.
perestroika@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Ah, nice to remember. :) I’m used to speaking and writing UK English - I learnt it that way and it became a habit. (Colour intead of color, labour instead of labor, tyre instead of tire, etc.)
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
“Not lab our” isn’t a complete sentence. Please conform to all rigid forms of prescriptivist communication if you’d like to continue nitpicking stupid shit.
Jhex@lemmy.world 2 days ago
And remember the follow up… If it’s legal for kids to work overnight with no breaks, it’ll soon be mandatory or you’d lose whatever social security survives…
And then it’ll just be mandatory because there is no social security safety net and you are now officially an indentured servant of the Florida kingdom
LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Insane.? Yes. Shocking? No. Escalating? Yes. They’ve been doing this for decades with prison labor and youth “education” programs. Of course their gonna do this under the Milkshake Nazis.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The children yearn for the mines!
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
It’s what Minecraft was made for, training.
known_unknown@lemmy.world 2 days ago
All our elevators are garbage because the children refuse to mine straight up or down
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
They’re gonna be shipped off to GreenIand
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 days ago
I’m so glad not to have been born in that shithole country.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I mean they shut down the department of education. Kinda seems like a convenient time to put kids back to work
SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Next; children leaving education at 10 to start working.
BigMacHole@lemm.ee 2 days ago
This is the type of Family Values I VOTED for!
-Republicans attacking Trans People for being Inappropriate for Kids
sarcasticsunrise@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I am so fucking glad that fate lifted me from out of my shit hole home state to Chicago 15 years ago. I count my lucky stars everyday and night. I hope this shit inspires my younger brother and his fiancee to think of the future of my 3 year old nephew and get the hell outta there, but my brother is employed by the VA, so no telling how long he’ll have the financial meane to do so even if he wanted
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
I think you would have to be extremely uneducated to be outraged about this now. It’s not a new thing, the party of child marriage and child labour gets elected and you’re shocked about child labour? Are people going to feign surprise when they try to lower the age of consent laws again?
NABDad@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Well, Americans are nothing if not terribly uneducated.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Fair point
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 days ago
Right, you should be murderously furious, not outraged.
El_guapazo@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Wanna be it’ll be brown and black children that owe lunch money?
Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 2 days ago
The party of “family values” was always referring to the value of their labor potential those greedy pieces of shit were longing to utilize.
LMDNW@lemm.ee 1 day ago
MAGA “Conservatives” are either evil, stupid, or both. You cannot be a supporter of MAGA and also a good and intelligent person. The concepts are antithetical to each other.
wirebeads@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
America is becoming the most vile country on the planet.
You fucking idiots voted in an orange muppet rapist who’s being controlled by a Russian dictator while sending secret communications between a drunk ex showman who now runs the military.
You get what you voted for. Enjoy having your kids in blueberry fields and coal mines to continue building wealth for the rich for penny’s.
Pathetic. America is pathetic.
moncharleskey@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Meanwhile, those of us that most definitely did NOT vote for this are faced with new horrors every day, right here in our own country. It’s just a blast watching our former allies shutting the door and giving the entire population the finger when we are facing a crisis like this. I have to wonder, was this what it was like during the Nazi’s rise to power? Did other nations turn a blind eye and say “not my problem”? Now the formerly so called leader of the free world has been taken down by the oligarchs and so many countries and people are saying good luck, get fucked. I guess it’s fine to overthrow some back water country in the name of “democracy” but the US can rot right? Not like this will have any impact on global relations or climate change, right?
To be clear, I’m not attacking you, I’m just frustrated to see this happening around me and seeing so little support for the people here that want absolutely nothing to do with it. There are a lot of people here that don’t deserve what’s coming, that have voted, campaigned, protested and argued against it, and I really wish people took the time to understand that nuance to not just this situation, but everything.
To those that lend encouragement and support to anyone standing against this, thank you, whole heartedly, because we absolutely need it.
Plagiatus@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s easier to roll into an underdeveloped nation than into the nation with the biggest military (and economy I think?) in the world!
Best we can do from the outside right now is help you guys help yourselves, by showing you that the last choice was a bad one so you may make a better choice next time. At least that’s all we can do officially and publicly.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Also, there was a shit ton of shenanigans going on during the last election. Other countries boycotting our products will absolutely help us. If it costs the 1% money, he will be taken down a notch. The oligarchs are in this for the money after all.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
What specifically do you think other countries should be doing?
SARGE@startrek.website 2 days ago
The pearl clutching of many non-north American people is becoming nearly comedic.
It’s always been “you shouldn’t lump everyone on that label as the same because they aren’t” up to now, so it sure is “confusing” as to why suddenly all Americans bad.
RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 day ago
Other countries also currently have popular fascists problems. Its hard to help other countries deal with their fascist problems when you have your own fascist problems
Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The people who purposefully didn’t voted are the real fucking idiots.
There are a bunch right here on lemmy that took a “principled stance”, and fucked us realllllll fuckin hard.
Anyone who didn’t vote is fucking stupid as shit.
ProfHillbilly@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Those are the ones I truly hate. the MAGA I understand but the non-voters are the ones that piss me off.
Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 2 days ago
A few dozen bomb threats at polling places in the swing states makes it real suspect whether we actually did vote him in.
ceph@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Musk buying his way into and out of everything should have always been a red flag into how the 2024 election was actually won.
blattrules@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah, but his competition laughed a little too much or some other bullshit reason so we couldn’t have elected her.
Geodad@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Always has been.
known_unknown@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Had you fooled for a while though, didn’t we? 👉😉👉