It takes a really special kind of sick fuck to look at kids and think, “You know, it’s a shame these beautiful, innocent little people aren’t allowed to spend their formative years scrubbing out meat packing plants or working in coal mines.”
American conservatism is a disease.
It’s not that there’s a #labor shortage.
There’s a shortage of *adults* willing to work for wages that won’t keep a roof over their heads.
But KIDS will put up with joke wages and no health insurance.
That's why it's a good thing to turn the equation around and look at it the way so few do: not employment rate or labor shortage but rather laborforce participation rate.
Historically high numbers of people aren't bothering with the laborforce at all. That should put a spotlight on an environment that doesn't make it worth their while.
