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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 62 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Why the fuck do american children set up lemonade stands it's fucking weird grooming kids into grifter "entrepreneurial spirit" culture just give them pocket money ffs. Don't you teach kids not to speak to strangers?

We don't do this shit in the uk. Thank fucking god.

Girl scouts selling cookies too. Weird as fuck. Does not happen here. MLM/Pyramid schemes for children ffs.

The OP might be joking about the kid but I'm not, it's not the kid's fault though it's the parents allowing and encouraging petite-bourgeois behaviour at a young age because nobody counters this negative element of american cultural grooming and it factors into normalisation of the "pursuit of happiness" bullshit inherent to the "american dream". It's a component of early cultural brainwashing.

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 41 points 3 weeks ago

Don't you teach kids not to speak to strangers?

I hope not. Socializing with strangers is a good skill which is more helpful to instill in a child than a blanket fear of strangers. Not having a go at you or anything, but I feel like this is a really common contributor to the atomization of modern Westoid societies. Of course teach kids boundaries, but it is kinda messed up imo to teach them not to speak to strangers.

[-] Glitch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 weeks ago

Well put

[-] sir_this_is_a_wendys@hexbear.net 37 points 3 weeks ago

Yes. They also encourage kids to sell BS to fundraise for the PUBLIC SCHOOLS that don't get enough funding to operate.

[-] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 20 points 3 weeks ago

This is waaaay more common than lemonade stands or whatever.

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 15 points 3 weeks ago

For pennies too.

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

I remember doing it just because my friends were and getting no sales because all the kids in my neighborhood already reached every house before I could

[-] uSSRI@hexbear.net 15 points 3 weeks ago

Oh in the 90s we had Junior Achievement speakers come in all the time. It was volunteers of like bank managers and lawyers and other petite bourg interests pushing free market superiority propaganda on kids. I think they even tied it into "American civic ideals". Like the usual propaganda but cranked up to 11.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

yikes-1yikes-2yikes-2yikes-3

Yeah we don't have that shit here either.

[-] metaltoilet@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago

We did it because: A) it was nice for 10 year old me to have some money to spend on candy or whatever dumb things my parents didn’t want to pay for. B) Learning to prep, prepare, and sell it really did give me an appreciation for the workers who have to do it every day. C) It was just fun.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Kids should not be getting into any of this shit until they're 16. Before that the only shit they should be doing is like an hour on a paper round and only when they're 13+.

It's absolutely culturally damaging to a society to groom kids into this as totally normal at a young age and the message it sends to adults across society as well is that if kids can be doing it then why aren't you. That it's your own fault for not having the hustle to earn - even kids can do it. It reinforces some of the worst aspects of capitalism.

You may have enjoyed it and you may want to defend those memories you have of it and may even get a twinge about me saying negative things about something that is fundamentally american in culture (a little nationalist defensiveness perhaps) but all of that does not change the fact its impact is fundamentally reinforcing capitalism. It should be dismantled but attacking something children do is inherently difficult because people will stand up and argue the kids enjoy doing it in defence of it to set you as the bad guy.

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago

Comparing a lemonade stand to grooming is pretty online

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Sexual grooming and the act of grooming children for a specific social outcome are different things and that should be inherently obvious from the context.

I will not use another word. It is an act of grooming intended to achieve a specific social and cultural outcome beneficial to corporate america.

[-] Roonerino@hexbear.net 60 points 3 weeks ago

The real criminal is whoever dressed that kid up like that.

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 32 points 3 weeks ago

mfer looks like he's running for mayor but it's 1912 and there's a Dixie band playing

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 18 points 3 weeks ago

well i'll be a cracked corn on a lanyard, these ragamuffins are making off with my liquid confectionary! hue and cry! i demand a possee apprehend the rascals post-haste!

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 28 points 3 weeks ago

i-think-that kids being robbed is bad actually.

[-] utopologist@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago

What if the kid is sort of an asshole, or just has a general unpleasant vibe?

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

Same answer as "what if the child consents." Brah it's a child, staaaaahp.

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 17 points 3 weeks ago

Did this even happen?

[-] Roonerino@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago

Okay hear me out for a second but the kind of lunatic that puts that outfit on their kid to run a lemonade stand is exactly the kind of lunatic that hires his lunatic friends (50/50 on them being off duty cops) to rob the kid to "teach him a lesson" about the "real world".

[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 15 points 3 weeks ago

Should've jacked the hat and tie aswell, save the kid from more humiliation

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 15 points 3 weeks ago

I knew it was rough at Current Affairs after the boycott, but I didn't know Nathan ended this low having to sell lemonade to pay the bills.

[-] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago

Lead brained reads pretty ableist comrade

[-] Leon_Frotsky@hexbear.net 18 points 3 weeks ago

is lead poisoned better at getting acrpss what i meant or should i just remove it entirely

[-] radiofreeval@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

Is lead poisoned (derogatory) ablest? Lead pipes are definitely more common in underprivileged communities and aren't fixed as fast as they would be in rich neighborhoods. That said I have spent my entire childhood using lead pipes in my mostly white neighborhood because America can totally fix problems quickly (they got removed last week and I'm happy to finally drink out of the sink like a normal person and not have to use a Britta filter).

[-] 2812481591@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

when a couple of ruffians snatched away my lemonade proceeds, I decided to go on the dick cavett show and do a little Peanut jig. Yes, that's what you need is a 👐peanut👐 jig of your own. Yes, a 👐peanut👐 jig of your own yes

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