There is something very, very wrong with a system that would rather recruit more kids instead of paying better wages and providing more benefits to adults
Back in the good old days American children didn’t sit around playing video games, making TikToks, and bingeing Netflix. They worked long hours in factories and sweatshops; they knew the value of hard graft. They didn’t take sick days either, they just died of diphtheria. It was a simpler time.
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