A Boring Dystopia

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A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"This is a systemic problem. Children should have their needs met without the need for work, and this child working is an obvious symptom of the problem at hand."

"Have you ever considered that I, an individual, worked at a mcdonalds at the age of 15? I used the money to buy a video game. Therefore your argument is invalid."

This comment section is fuckin weird.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Your comment was on top when I came here and made me look through the rest of the thread, and holy shit lmao

I remember having to do stuff like this when I was a kid. It was dystopian then, and it's dystopian now.

The fact that it's so normalized here in the US that people scramble to defend this is really tragic and illustrates how hard it is for people to step back and see the true nature of a situation and ask ourselves if this is something a healthy functional society would produce. "I enjoyed it, therefore it's good" is one of the worst defenses for anything, ever.