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Nah. It’s really not and plenty of them are plenty mature enough to handle simple shit. I washed dishes and did blue berry reading at 14. Low risk, brought in extra money for my hobbies, saved up and got my my first car, taught me the value of money and physical labor. All extremely positive factors in developing my youth.

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Sorry, why should a middle schooler be doing physical labor? This sounds like nightmare capitalism.

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Sure, if you ignore all of human history it sounds like nightmare capitalism.

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All of human history before capitalism? That makes no sense. How could you have a nightmare form of capitalism before it even existed? Get it together, dude.

We live in capitalism. Therefore, making life worse makes this a worse version of capitalism. Get it now?

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Your argument is really “we did it before, so it’s fine”? We did a ton of things before that aren’t ok. Historical usage of a thing doesn’t make it ok.

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You mean all of human history when we had things like slavery and women as property? Yeah, we should keep doing that stuff too, right?

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Because there is very little risk to health and safety and I don’t see an issue with teens making extra money of the side. You all are just out to be angry and rage at news.

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A 16yro with a job vs a 14 yro with a job is a HUGE difference. Those 2 years are massive in development. 14 yro’s should not have a real job yet

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Weird, because UNICEF seems to disagree. But hey, they don’t work in benefits and taxation, so what would they know about child mental and physical health?

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