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What's everyone's opinions on letting minors above a certain age do some part-time labor? (hexbear.net)
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I used to do odd jobs around my neighborhood as a teen and I actually kind of liked it, I got walking around money and the work was actually kind of fun and was maybe even a bit educational and enriching. I mean I guess this is also sort of the role Scouting/Pioneer organizations filled in society, since a lot of it is getting kids to do some free charity labor but it's for like nice stuff like cleaning up the park and not working in a factory.

IDK about having kids bag groceries and or be cashiers and shit. I think that's basically just a way for retail businesses to cheap out on labor.

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[–] plinky@hexbear.net 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

i feel like couple of hours informal job is whatever, allows to compare and contrast house chores as well as adult behavior in uncontrolled environment, but i feel like those cleaning of cities projects or collecting recyclable stuff in neighborhoods can serve similar role (floating working hours, doing something useful, having someone other than teacher or parents being your boss), shame those type of stuff by municipalities is kinda rare, and its usually schools doing it without compensation (i do shudder when i see someone too young in fastfood place tho, i guess formality of work/presence of uniform bothers me soviet-hmm )