Nothing like a good 12 hour shift at the Smoothie King to build character.
At this point I can’t tell if these guys are seeing how far they can push things or if they actually believe this kind of thing is good for their state. Both are stupid but neither would be surprising.
Many of them are just old and have cognitive dissonance about their own experience as a child. They simply believe that children today have the identical, fantasized experience they think they remember. Not only is what they remember untrue and most likely a collage of half-memories, stories from other people, and propaganda, but they have no incentive to scrutinize their decisions and beliefs because they’ve been in a comfortable insular community for most of their life that rewards them for thinking this way.
I say old but you don’t have to be that old to be brainwashed by a religious community and a comfortable job.
If you’re talking about the voters, sure.
The people writing the laws are doing it purely for profit. They get paid by businesses, the businesses get the cheapest labor possible.
It’s a dangerous thing. Because if you talk to some of these legislators they can easily hand over the same excuse about it being their belief as the voters who believe in that. But the scary thing is, as hard as it is to admit, many of them genuinely believe in the thing they vote for.
Maybe in places like the house or congress it’s a skew towards money and power, but it exists especially in local government. It’s easy to completely dehumanize them by saying they’re just paid to do it but the much more real situation is that it’s genuine.
We just lost the democrat governor who has been blocking stupid bills like this for the last year. Our congress is revenge passing everything they can because the new republican governor blindly rubber stamps it all.
So yeah, a lot of these bills literally are just seeing what they can get away with.
They believe that putting limits on what businesses can do to abuse their employees keeps the employees from learning to be better.
Basically telling a bullied child that they’re on their own, and they need to learn to stand up for themselves.
Nevermind that comparatively, its like the bully is sitting in a panzer tank and perfectly willing to keep rolling forward no matter the obstacle.
“The wording is ‘We’re here to harm children.’ Give me a break," he said. "These are young adults.”
That seems like an open admission he wants to harm “young adults”
Here’s the thing: Lots of Republican leaning business owners see it as their right to retaliate against their workers without the gov intervening. So to them, the only thing they see wrong with this is the “child” part, because retaliation against children makes them look bad.
Hence the “they aren’t children” rhetoric.
By the way, this part of the bill was explicitly included by a congressman who owns some franchises and says his underage workers “don’t even want lunch breaks”.
So this is one dude trying to squeeze 20 extra hours of labor from literal children who’s dictating this for the entire state.
I guess they really never got over losing that slavery thing…
“First-term state Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs, who sponsored the child labor measure and owns Smoothie King franchises across the Deep South, said he filed the bill in part because children want to work without having to take lunch breaks.”
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-children-yearn-for-the-mines
Does conflict of interest not exist in the US, or is it encouraged to get yourself elected and just be openly corrupt?
Why not just declare yourself a massive wage straight from the budget?
Is this not a conflict of interest? String this motherfucker up in the gallows. It is downright corrupt to write laws that benefit your franchise. Fuck this asshole with a rusted spoon. Take all this online anger and shove it in his smoothie king lobbies.
Surely the voters will punish pols who brazenly help themselves at the expense of the public.
Any day now.
“Remove lunch breaks for child workers”
For those of you worried that we were falling into a dystopian nightmare… Congratulations, we’re well beyond that.
