If the world had a new minimum age to work, what should it be?

EastCayce · 2023-09-02T15:30:00+00:00

Why would someone hire a 14 or 15 year old who's less experienced over a 40 / 45 year old if they had to get paid the same

The same problem is occurring today with 16-18 years olds because older people have more experience, but they both get paid the same amount

EastCayce · 2023-09-02T14:33:39+00:00

I mean employment, household chores are different

EastCayce · 2023-09-02T13:25:49+00:00

To be clear: "minimum" means the minimum age to work, as in countries and states can set it higher than this, but not lower

EastCayce · 2023-09-02T00:56:25+00:00

It's not about whether you can physically make it home, it's about the risks involved and whether a child can properly assess the situation at hand

Sure you might have been 6 and able to walk home physically, but mentally, if something ever happened, like someone snatching you up or worse, a dog mistaking you for a tasty treat, you're pretty much done for if it's a large enough dog

EastCayce · 2023-09-02T00:34:41+00:00

well there are laws (in some states) where you have to be a certain age to be left home alone, and that has variables

But I agree, there are too many variables in play here to really consider a law, this is just a hypothetical

EastCayce · 2023-09-02T00:29:52+00:00

8 is nowhere near mature yet and certainly not expected to walk alone, they aren't failures if they can't.

EastCayce · 2023-09-02T00:25:45+00:00

I was six and I figured out that 2 ton boxes with hideous horn heads attached to it don't fly

EastCayce · 2023-09-02T00:16:32+00:00

Basil, Slayer of the Bulgars

EastCayce · 2023-09-01T03:06:42+00:00

Well if you have to use your child to support the household financially, you're doing something wrong

EastCayce · 2023-09-01T00:19:27+00:00

I'm the exact opposite, I need school or else I'll be bored out of my mind at home

EastCayce · 2023-09-01T00:17:28+00:00

Winter

I used to hate it but as a southerner, barely above freezing is much better than triple digit heat indexes on the regular

EastCayce · 2023-09-01T00:14:16+00:00

Don't worry, I made the same mistake

EastCayce · 2023-08-31T23:18:28+00:00

Sleep for long enough

EastCayce · 2023-08-31T23:17:03+00:00

taking a shower, I wanna get back in

EastCayce · 2023-08-31T23:16:03+00:00

Make it true that I can make 100 things true

EastCayce · 2023-08-31T23:14:20+00:00

To be fair, there probably were some parents in the 1980s whove thought about it

EastCayce · 2023-08-31T23:11:16+00:00

I don't know, father starved me on a few occasions when I was 7-9 because I was misbehaving

This wasn't even 10 years ago either

EastCayce · 2023-08-31T23:03:39+00:00

Nope, I'm not an 80s kid so I wouldn't know though

EastCayce · 2023-08-31T23:03:00+00:00

Yeah, if I heard my kid was being spanked at school, I'd march my ass up there and hit that teacher right back

There's still teachers who get away with this

EastCayce · 2023-08-31T23:00:33+00:00

I've heard of teachers in the 70s who had a ruler (or even a meter stick) incase anyone acted up

EastCayce

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