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So, is the short answer to the increase in support for lowering the age for child labor, (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Apr 24 OP
Essentially, yes. PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 24 #1
Nah TheFarseer Apr 24 #2

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,898 posts)
1. Essentially, yes.
Wed Apr 24, 2024, 11:04 PM
Apr 24

There is always a need for cheap labor, no matter where that cheap labor comes from. I read something just a few days ago about how the main reason this country is not in the well-predicted-and-yet-somehow-did-not-happen recession is that we've been letting in migrants who promptly take jobs. The kind of jobs a lot of people aren't willing to take. But they take those jobs, earn money, spend that money in the economy, maybe send some of it back to wherever home is. I'm the granddaughter of Irish immigrants who worked at the undesirable jobs those already here wouldn't take.

Now, well over a century later, I hire second hand, recent immigrants to clean my house or clear my yard of weeds. Yeah, I could possibly do those things myself, but I don't want to and I'm not good at them. Plus, and most importantly, I'm helping to provide a living for those people, who I suspect are recent immigrants.

TheFarseer

(9,326 posts)
2. Nah
Wed Apr 24, 2024, 11:08 PM
Apr 24

They want more people to be exploited no matter what else is going on. Another group of people being exploited means more profits period. The answer to , “How much money could you possibly need?!” Is always “ more”. Dollar dollar bill, ya’ll

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