If there's one thing self-avowed Communists seem to hate it's working. They don't want to work, they don't want kids to have to work, they simply dream of some happy pinko utopia where nobody has to work but gets to have all the stuff they want for free like God intended (except they don't believe in God because religion is 'the opium of the people' so maybe like Marx intended?) Of course as we know Communism never works out because you kinda need people to work to keep things ticking along, but still they soldier on getting angry about people working. One of their big bug-a-boos is 'child labor', and the claim that evil capitalism forces kids to work when they should be 'being kids'... So tell us, does this kid look like he's being oppressed?
Child labor is back in action in America pic.twitter.com/wPiftCWlVJ
— Tired Peasant ☭🇵🇸 (@HorrorGorl) January 24, 2024
Kid looks absolutely thrilled to be there, and after all why not? When you're 14 or whatever the money you make from a minimum wage job is real money, money you can buy all sorts of fun stuff with... plus parents like the opportunity too, as it teaches self-reliance and work ethic. It's really a win-win all around, but don't tell a communist that because what you're apparently doing is depriving the kid of his childhood or something:
You’re absolutely correct.
— Tired Peasant ☭🇵🇸 (@HorrorGorl) January 25, 2024
Commies don’t want children to work .
We want them to be kids.
Given that these are the types who are always claiming that infants should be able to decide what gender they are and begin taking drugs to radically alter their body chemistry and toddlers should be given the right to vote because 'they're the future', claiming to carry the mantle of 'guardian of kids and childhood' is a really interesting direction to take here.
Happiest looking cashier I’ve ever seen.
— Danny Able (@DK_Able) January 25, 2024
Got up and rode my bike on a paper route at 5 a.m. at the age of 11.
— Daniel Lee (@realdanlee) January 26, 2024
Is they/them old enough to decide their gender?
— XBradTC (@xbradtc) January 26, 2024
Seek an abortion without parental consent?
Vote?
Yup. Asking for logical consistency from members of the extreme left is always a fools errand, of course, because they simply don't have any.
Kid is probably a lot happier than you.
— Joshua Smith from Break The Cycle (@JoshuaAtLarge) January 25, 2024
A 14 or 15 year old kid working an easy job with virtually no risk in a low crime area for some extra spending money while getting work experience.
— Cesare Borgia (@SirCesareBorgia) January 25, 2024
What's the problem?
It's okay for children to work. The laws came into effect because of exploitation and working conditions. Kids today aren't working steel refineries and can only work so many hours legally. It's a good thing.
— Anton Frattaroli (@AntonFrattaroli) January 24, 2024
Nobody's asking for or forcing these kids to go down into mine shafts to mine coal or dart their hands between moving machine parts to change out the spindles in a wool mill like a Doffer, the kid presumably applied for and got a job running the register at BK. Nobody's being repressed here... because we offshore that kind of enforced child labor to other countries in support of Big Green Initiatives like electric cars, whose batteries use Cobalt often mined by literal children in horrible conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo... But you're unlikely to hear these types talking about that.
You guys think this kid has the ability to consent to sex change surgery but you have an issue with him having a part time job to save money for his future and gain valuable experience interacting with customers? I had a job like this at 13 and it was great for me. https://t.co/AQKHKHmnSP
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) January 26, 2024
I had a fast food job at 15, it ruled. I bought so many CDs and movie tickets. https://t.co/YjyRC2yrwp
— Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) January 26, 2024
This is almost exactly me from the 1980s, working a part time fast food job at age 15 for money to buy a car.
— Hank Venture (@HankVenture5) January 26, 2024
The experience of being responsible and having a work ethic was so traumatic that today I’m worth seven figures.
Communists can get wrecked. https://t.co/cOv8GhWcpQ
The Horrors!
Seriously, this isn't a 19th century filthy child working in a mill situation. Not long ago it was pretty standard for kids to have a paper route or to have some kind of a job they did after school, watch any old movie and you'll see it as a standard American trope. Kids need to be kids but part of being a kid is learning the importance of work and earning money, that if there's something you want but don't need you should work for it to be able to truly appreciate the thing.
So if you see a video of a happy kid earning money to buy himself a game cartridge for his Nintendo Switch just be happy he's being raised right, don't get up in arms and start pondering how we need to storm the Winter Palace. But then again you probably wouldn't, because you're not a commie.
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