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    The problem is voters who imagine they’ll be the wealthy landowners and not working in the fields.

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      I’d venture the problem’s more the rich “landowners” took over both the voting apparatus (so voters only get to vote between reps the landowners approve of) and that the landowners also own the news, the best means to disseminate that information (keeping voters from ever understanding the level of power those landowners wield)

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    And in about 15 years, Harry’s family will be forced to move to California when the soil they’re working is dried up and carried off in big black clouds by the wind.

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      Except it is unique to american capitalism, yes. Except child farm labor* is unique to capitalism - * labor being that he is exploited so someone can profit. Kids picking family farms is not “child labor.”

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        Not only is it not unique to capitalism, it’s DEFINITELY not unique to America lmao

        labor being that he is exploited so someone can profit

        That’s not what labor means lol

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          You have a fundamental misunderstanding of what labor is, especially in regards to this picture. A) this is an american picture, it’s therefore unique to America. B) the child is laboring for someone’s profit. This is, sure, part of feudalism, but the system under which the picture is taken is capitalism.

          Do you also think the kid is pushing out a baby because they are “laboring”?

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            “Domestic labour” is a term that refutes the point you’re trying to make. Labour just means effort, there’s no implicit connection to profit. In fact women’s labour has traditionally been unpaid forever, but it’s still work.

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              Sigh. Capitalist labor is different than domestic labor than birth labor etc.

              Do you also think buffalos have wings?

              Stop being a thick ass.

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    You guys just want to deprive him of his freedom to work. How else is going to earn the money to feed himself?

    (Sarcasm for the dim bulbs)

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    A capitalist will look at this and think “What work ethic! He’s setting a precedent for other kids his age.”

    A sane person will look at this and think “we must not let something like this happen again.”

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    Anyone picked cotton? If not, you have no idea what you would be getting into.

    See that cute, fluffy little cotton boll? See the brown, dried out petals? That are hard as iron and Ginsu sharp. First time picking, had one slide under my finger like a hypodermic needle. Even treated, it was infected for almost 3 weeks and I couldn’t bend it.

    Now go fast! And don’t wuss out and just get the tops, you gotta dig in there and get it all. At least a kid doesn’t have to bend over double. 🤷🏻

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    “He talked about helping his father in the fields. He was pulled out of school at about the eighth grade and forced to work in the fields. That was the name of the game. His father needed him to do that, so he did. However, I want you to know that he went back at a later time and finished high school.” –Lynda Baxter, daughter of Harold Walker

    Dude was living 90 years was married 3 times and have one daughter. I wish everybody at least the same long happy life. https://morningsonmaplestreet.com/2016/10/13/harold-jewel-walker-geronimo-oklahoma-2/