This doesnt make sense to me
1. Child labor laws don't let people work till they're ~16-18
2. Educational laws either force kids into school or foster care
A. Children have only been exempt from work for the past 80 years. 1800 years of quality work by 'kids'
B. Children have a fraction of the attention span of an adult, making lengthy 8 hr school days much less effective for a kid than an adult.
C. What is taught to a person as a child will stick with them - make it useful. Why do I know how to write in cursive? I never used it once even in highschool, so much wasted brain power.
Doesn't it make sense to allow a portion of the child population to work? Some people know that they aren't going to be a Scientist or a Lawyer or an Engineer, work experience would serve these people much better than some flimsy public education.
We're weakening ourselves and future generations. I realize there's not a lot of jobs available anymore, but a big part of that is because of the government restricting family business' from employing their own children, forcing them to hire expensively, therefore restricting the average business' from growing and competing with the larger ones.
The absence of 'child labor' has created an unfair economy and miserable, fat, ignorant, selfish, spoiled, and self-entitled youth.
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Well, you can work on a farm if you want.
There are lots of jobs you can do under 16. Newspaper boy, lawn mower, stuff like that.
All we need to do to make kids more productive is have them stop doing busy work in school and have them start doing stuff that will actually make a difference in their lives after school. I mean, schools don't even regularly have a finance class. Imagine if they did.
Sad thing is unless they fix these economies. Children still wouldn't be able to get jobs, adults 50+ and over are taking entry level jobs.
America is slowly losing money everyday, and soon enough I believe everyone will be close to or near getting on welfare. It's actually easier to get welfare than it is to get a job nowadays, yet they still want to cut you half of what you actually need.
@Daysiie
1. Chat section
2. Boredom
3. Something that everyone can relate too
I understand you are just glad to be treated as an equal human now, but some qualities of the past could benefit the present.
@SomeJello
Yea kids were treated as slaves at a point in time but where usually payed a little less than adults.
why people that write out arguments like this on basil is something i'll never understand
there are an infinite number of things that have changed over the past 80 years, and asking "why" to each one will get you nowhere.