Field work for the children of American citizens, under the table slaughterhouse and meatpacking work for the children of immigrants.

My grandfather was one of the most intelligent people I ever met, he was eloquent and very well read. He did well enough in his O-levels that his school strongly recommended he proceed to higher education. Unfortunately for him, he lived on a farm in rural Wales with seven siblings, and was forced by his parents to drop out of school at sixteen.

He spent the rest of his life as a agricultural worker, which, don't get me wrong, is an important and perfectly fine career, but it always struck me as a waste of potential.

The decision here to effectively deny education to certain children is criminal.

Since my uncles had to get up early and milk cows before going to school and then do various chores after school, I want to see some conservative oppose this on the basis of making the children too soft. "Back in my day we did farm labor, walked up hill both ways, and then also had to go to school. You kids just doing farm labor have it too easy."

Oh that's going to put rural areas back at 1930's ass schooling levels real fucking quick. Worse even. Kids in rural high schools in Indiana are already getting very agriculturally focused education largely, and this will just make the poor ones less able to advance in the long run. Presumably only the poorest would drop out to work when better jobs would be related to more education on agriculture. Indiana will easily sail to the bottom of adult education levels if they get that through, I would think.

This is just like Victoria 3

Even I didn't expect them to be nearly so honest on the question of what they're going to do once they prevent enough immigrants from coming here to do agricultural work. Did not see them just standing up and proudly going "child labor, duh."

I can see abusive parents forcibly removing their 14+ year old children from school and using them as cash cows. Including parents that are already well off. The rich are often the most likely to throw other lives into the grinder as long as they gain money, and many don't plan to exclude their own children from their plans to do so.

Mandatory public school attendance is sometimes the only protection some kids have from an abusive home life.

Fuck this country

Lowering the working age and life expectancy... Gotta get that 19th century absolute surplus value back. 🤑🤑🤑

This is the kinda shit my grandparents left Mexico for.

Imagining kids driving combines ala short round from indiana jones, with wood strapped to their shoes.

Capitalists love lusting after children, in more ways than one

"B- but I wanted to start a business and become rich"

"Start farming!!"

It's like the meme but true lol.

Every day it becomes more plausible that the current republican party is actually a wierd Blanquist cult doing left accelerationism.

"can we have agro-primitivist utopia"

"we have agro-primitivist utopia at home"

Ay yo that’s something someone should legitimately be killed for.

Said Indiana Republican heard that there was a DPRK song called "Young People of the Farm", and promptly thought, "Well America darn well better have the YOUNGEST people of the farm then"

this beeing america , they are forced back on the farms by gunpoint .... dark times .

Death to America

maybe if it was mandatory for one year and then you go back to regular school

I LOVE the poorly educated!

Why does Unicef have no data for child labour in the US but apparently has data for notoriously closed, secretive and hidden "north korea"?

I feel like there's some sort of witty libpost I should be able to make about Rs going on about what kids should and shouldn't learn in school and then supporting them dropping out, but I'm too tired both physiologically and existentially.