FL wants more child labor

European here: WTF?

Oh. Ok, Florida, see you guys are really taking the dystopia thing pretty damn seriously

Why the hell would you want children working overnight on school nights?

Conservative agenda:

Put young males to work until they're old enough to enlist.

Get young girls married and popping out babies as young as possible.

Don't think they aren't eyeing up little 13 year olds.

lol not even allowed a meal break. Can’t keep them healthy and energised for the job! 🤣

What a shithole America is becoming

Deport workers and fill their positions with literal children. That’s an insane proposition that will only hurt the vulnerable and favour those willing to use them…

The US is regressing more and more. I refuse to call it a first world country at this point.

So they gonna get the right to vote? Cause if they are going to be treated as adult they should get vote.

Let's also decrease liquor and smokes to 8 while we are at it.

Also remove child support cause they are grown up to get their own jobs and health insurance.

/s

f these people.

Sorry kids, you're not old enough for a lunch break.

I'm not against letting teenagers work as long as there are protections. Removing guaranteed meals and overnight work? Nah.

Dodged the bullet by being born in the 80s. We played Atari and Nintendo after school, then bicycle patrol around neighborhood

Cool so USA is importing everything I it had exported to third world countries.

• Authoritarian dictatorial leadership ✔️
• Child exploiting sweatshop ✔️

What's next USA?

Edit: Came here to add

• Detention without due process ✔️

Here I was thinking this was satire. Then I actually searched it up (source: CNN) and wtf?!

I imagine this will work well with the school to prison pipeline.

Reason number 11,462,821 why you can never, under any circumstances, trust conservatives with power.

Nothing says "freedom" like 1920s labor laws.

We don’t want them getting spoiled on their graveyard shifts with meal breaks

These will be a majority of white kids, right? Riiiight?

Ducking dystopia.

Serious question: Is this satire?

That guaranteed meal break should be extended, not rolled back. After 4 hours every worker should have a 30 minute break to eat. It's not just humane, it's common sense that fed people work better. Even if you exclude the 30 minutes from their hours, which I bet was already what was going on.

Jesus Chirst

This is where calling universal school lunches privileged leads to

Americans: End abortion!

World: Oh, are you worried about what your gods might think?

Americans: Huh? Nope. I just needs that there little fucker flippin' muh burgers. I aint 'spected ta do it muhself.

They yearn for the mines!

Is this the beginning of child slavery?

Guys who wrote this bill probably: "The children yearn for the mines."

Spoiler alert: the children working will also be illegal migrants

Get rid of those doing the jobs that are vital and pretend that the solution is to make teenagers rightsless workers.

Reason #8,994 why I left FL. My tax dollars no longer contribute to this shit.

onion right? right? turning the debate on "free meals to school kids" to "should we feed kids working in the mines". Nice progression M'URICAH

Florida is a land for the dying.

William Blake's The Chimney Sweeper (1789) entered the chat

When my mother died I was very young,

And my father sold me while yet my tongue

Could scarcely cry " 'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!"

So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep.

Fuck Florida

No no, you don't understand, the free market sets wages! If the boss can't find workers at the rate they set then they have to raise wages ....hire children!!

🤮

Florida sliding further backwards doesn't surprise me at all.

But on a good note it looks like Florida's Free Kill Law might finally be ending after 35 years of horrors to all the Floridians and tourists caught in it's trap, no thanks to the Republicans though.

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/728461-a-declaration-of-humanity-house-passes-bill-to-repeal-floridas-free-kill-law/

Why are they doing this? What do these people need so badly that they think this is a good idea?

I can see Trump defending Dept. Of Labor and OSHA

It also wants to starve children! FREEDUM

How else are they going to teach those leeches how to fend for themselves?

I hope the sarcasm is obvious there.

Some people think that education might be important for the jobs of the future. Qualifying for university is an option on such a future.

Other people think fuck the future, we need more people taking a career path that starts as a dishwasher right now.

Very few of these other people will question "what was wrong with the dishwasher we had?"

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/business/florida-child-labor-laws/index.html

And they get a trial 90 license to fly a jetliner?

These people want to "fuck" kids in every meaning of the word.

Reduce minimum age for sex workers to twelve...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/03/25/florida-child-labor-law-bill-2025/82657143007/

Jesus they just can't stop winning eh?

Wow. What the hell. None of that is acceptable.