Yeah, under capitalism it isn't uncommon that kids kind of need to work. I've been working consistently since 15, it let me have some fun as a teenager and save up enough to pay for a few semesters of college. I wouldn't have starved if I didn't work that young, but my parents were white collar and it eased their burden while making my younger life notably better.
It would be great if kids didn't need to work, but when accumulation of money is the game, you need to get it somewhere.
So they can propagandize you with notions of "lower taxes", a concept easier to understand than "progressive income tax that taxes minimum or near minimum wage employees at an extremely low amount, while still taxing high income individuals at high amounts"
I was one of the last of the paper boys. We used to deliver newspapers on bikes. I got hired at 12. Received a check for $40 every month that the liquor store owner next door had no problem cashing. If I was a better commie I would have unionized that fucker. My bad.
Why are people under 18 still eligible for employment
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Yeah, under capitalism it isn't uncommon that kids kind of need to work. I've been working consistently since 15, it let me have some fun as a teenager and save up enough to pay for a few semesters of college. I wouldn't have starved if I didn't work that young, but my parents were white collar and it eased their burden while making my younger life notably better.
It would be great if kids didn't need to work, but when accumulation of money is the game, you need to get it somewhere.
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Naive and inexperienced people are more easily exploitable....also Protestants hate children
To socialize the young for wage labour
I loved having a job when I was 16. My own spending money! And I got to be a part of something bigger than myself. Heady stuff.
I also found out what a bite taxes took out. Ouch. Why did people who made as little as I did get stung like that?
So they can propagandize you with notions of "lower taxes", a concept easier to understand than "progressive income tax that taxes minimum or near minimum wage employees at an extremely low amount, while still taxing high income individuals at high amounts"
Anyone earning less than $70k/year shouldn't pay any income tax at all. It's total bullshit.
I'm willing to compromise and pay 0.01 percent
I was one of the last of the paper boys. We used to deliver newspapers on bikes. I got hired at 12. Received a check for $40 every month that the liquor store owner next door had no problem cashing. If I was a better commie I would have unionized that fucker. My bad.