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Re:Instead of paying adults more, states let companies hire ... by thebradbain on Sunday March 12, 2023 @03:05PM (#35124674)
The industries that are excited to use child labor (which is what this is) are only doing so because they have a shortage of capable adult workers that want to work in the conditions and for the pay provided.

Aside from the fact that most kids can’t tell when they’re being exploited, why should kids be the stopgap for corporations that not even adults want

According to the rules of the “free market”, these jobs should either provide better conditions or working conditions or both in order to attract talent, because the issue is not an oversupply of capable workers, it’s less.

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Re:Instead of paying adults more, states let companies hire ... by ssnistfajen on Sunday March 12, 2023 @05:45PM (#35126684)
Or in the case where passing the cost of better pay & benefits onto the customers will reduce demand of their products/services making continued operation unviable, then their business don't deserve to continue to exist. But instead of letting the free market sort itself out, they seek to exploit children in order to prop up their unethical and unviable business.
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