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[-] Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 114 points 8 months ago

Voting Republican has consequences.

If you think your kids hated you before, let's see how they like you now.

[-] Nednarb44@lemmy.world 75 points 8 months ago
[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 87 points 8 months ago

You see, teens aren't people. They're animals owned by their parents. So some of the money goes to animal care costs.

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 42 points 8 months ago

that's bad, my state only follows federal minimum wage, so that's $7.25 for everybody

[-] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Meanwhile, the additional costs spared and their consequences for livehood:

If you're a normal/poor person: scraping by -> can't even live paycheck to paycheck anymore

If you're somewhat affluent: okay -> scraping by

If you're a billionnaire: excellent -> excellent (nothing changes)

To be part of the 1%, in the United States you'll need about $USD 6 million. Though living off from money only (i.e. without wage labour) is already "achievable" by $2 million, you then make about $100k a year with a 5% interest if in stocks.

All ye who are not part of the 1%, are the proletariat. Ye who depend on the oligarch have nothing to lose, but a world to gain.

[-] Rune_Walsh@lemmy.world 40 points 8 months ago

Jane Raybauld, a Democrat, pushed for this because her family owns grocery stores that employ minors. She's a piece of shit.

[-] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 31 points 8 months ago

Cant vote but can be worked to death for poverty wages - just one more form of legal slavery

[-] rottenmummy@lemmy.world 30 points 8 months ago
[-] arin@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

conservative is to be backwards

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

One state isn't other 49. Don't lump the backwards with the rest of us.

[-] Tja@programming.dev 4 points 8 months ago

Who's your president, again?

[-] RickyRigatoni@piefed.social 3 points 8 months ago

Gregory Bananas

[-] rottenmummy@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You have a point, but most recently we don't hear that best of news out of the US. it is especially hard not to do so because the president is a pedophile.

[-] zout@fedia.io 25 points 8 months ago

Like I said in another thread, this has been the case in the Netherlands for at least since the eighties (€4,32 an hour if you're 15, still below €10 if you're 19) . And employers abuse the shit out of it, hiring young people as cheap labour and trying to get rid of them before they turn 21.

[-] Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Wtf, only 30% of the minimum wage for being 15? What exactly is the company supposed to do with the other 70% to justify that?

[-] zout@fedia.io 1 points 8 months ago

The justification once was that young people couldn't get a job if someone more experienced would get the same pay.

[-] BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago

I guess the GOP wants to fuck the teens in more ways than one

[-] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Work is work, age shouldn't have a damn thing to do with wages.

[-] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 13 points 8 months ago

Imagine how many of them are parents themselves, just fuck over 2 generations at once.

[-] pemptago@lemmy.ml 13 points 8 months ago

Children working for low wages: truly a show of a thriving state and a Great America /s

[-] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

How many affected by this aren't even capable of voting? Fucking evil.

[-] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Meanwhile, when I was a teen I had to pay bills and rent, and I was paid MUCH MORE than kids are today (inflation).

But fuck teens, right? Oh, and you're drafted womp womp

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Child slavery is beginning again

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

More MAGA winning. This is exactly what MAGA wants to do on a national level.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

I don't really have an issue with this. At $25 an hour, 10% less for actual teenagers is fair.

Wait, did you say $15?

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 8 months ago

yeah it should at the least be the opposite and raise minimum wage for non teenages. Its low enough.

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Now implement price controls.

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