• NuPNuA@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Given that I work in benefits and taxation and I see how bad some people are with their money and budgeting as they weren’t forced to do so at an early age, of say it was for the best.

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      1 year ago

      So working at 13 years old guarantees you will be good with your money? Or not working at 13 years old guarantees you won’t?

      Because it would seem to me that teaching children financial literacy would be a better plan than allowing corporations to benefit from child labor.

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        1 year ago

        I think the practical application of actually having money in your pocket and having to manage it is better than anything we can teach theoretically. I’m not saying have them doing 40 hour weeks, but a few hours of a weekend won’t hurt them.

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          1 year ago

          Unless those few hours of a weekend are serving drunk men as a teenage girl, you mean. Then there’s a huge amount of potential for hurt.

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            1 year ago

            Yeah, I said in my very first post they probably shouldn’t be working in bars. My disagreement was that they shouldn’t be working at all.