Problem is that the work will in many cases not be appropriate. Young people generally don’t have the knowledge and experience to know their workers’ rights, which employers are quick to take advantage of. They can easily be coerced into taking on tasks they shouldn’t, or keep quiet about various violations in the workplace, and this is plenty reason enough in addition to all the other obvious reasons that children shouldn’t be working. You’re basically saying that exploitation should exist in the job market to teach kids a lesson. Are you bonkers?
First, we’re not talking about enforcing children to go work down the mines, the article is talking about a teenager working in a food truck, no matter how click and rage baity the headline is.
All labour is inherently exploitative and learning that and the degrees with which you personally can or can’t accept is a valuable life lesson whether you learn it as a teenager when you have a familial safety net or when you’re living hand to mouth and can’t afford to speak up.
I have no moral or ethical problem with allowing a teenager who wants to working a job for which it is appropriate for them to do. Issues we may or may have with the nature of capitalist society or lack of regulation doesn’t change that.
Problem is that the work will in many cases not be appropriate. Young people generally don’t have the knowledge and experience to know their workers’ rights, which employers are quick to take advantage of. They can easily be coerced into taking on tasks they shouldn’t, or keep quiet about various violations in the workplace, and this is plenty reason enough in addition to all the other obvious reasons that children shouldn’t be working. You’re basically saying that exploitation should exist in the job market to teach kids a lesson. Are you bonkers?
First, we’re not talking about enforcing children to go work down the mines, the article is talking about a teenager working in a food truck, no matter how click and rage baity the headline is.
All labour is inherently exploitative and learning that and the degrees with which you personally can or can’t accept is a valuable life lesson whether you learn it as a teenager when you have a familial safety net or when you’re living hand to mouth and can’t afford to speak up.
I have no moral or ethical problem with allowing a teenager who wants to working a job for which it is appropriate for them to do. Issues we may or may have with the nature of capitalist society or lack of regulation doesn’t change that.