However, child labor (like slave labor) was never truly illegal in the U.S. The first anti-child-labor laws in the U.S. still allowed for child labor on farms, as well as child labor outside of school hours.
@MikeDunnAuthor And also a “master’s level professionals who want to be reviled on social media, doxxed, and accused of abusing children for simply doing the job they are trained to do” shortage
Actually, the pandemic has made the tough, underpaid job much tougher, in numerous ways. With virtually no school districts do any kind of mitigation anymore, we have lots of teachers and staff out sick with covid and a shortage of subs. Consequently, admin has been calling on teachers to cover their colleagues classes during their prep periods. Sure, we get paid, but not at an overtime rate. And it makes a long day and excessive workload much more excessive.
Additionally, they keep asking us to do more, without any increase in pay or time off, to solves a host of worsening societal problems, including a lot of covid-related problems. For example, with more kids out sick, for longer periods of time, we are expected to provide more alternative additional assignments and lessons so those kids don't fall even farther behind. And kids' social and academic maturity has declined significantly in the past 2 years. Some attribute this to the 1-1.5 years those kids spent doing remote learning.
On top of this, teachers are being blamed for kids' declining mental health, as if the lockdowns were our fault, and as if the lockdowns are the cause. But evidence shows that teen suicides declined significantly when the lockdowns began (probably due to the end of on-school bullying, homophobia, classism, etc). But a shitload of other problems having nothing to do with school or lockdowns that are likely causes of their declining mental health have worsened: climate crisis, economic desperation, threat of world war or nuclear war, fascism, etc. And teachers in a lot of districts are being saddled with the responsibility of "fixing" these distressed kids.
@MikeDunnAuthor@Radical_EgoCom The sheer number of 50s and 60s shows that just took it for granted that we’d only work a handful of hours a week in the 21st century thanks to technological advances… and instead we got an oligarchy of billionaires. 🫤
@gregly@MikeDunnAuthor@Radical_EgoCom Yes, I remember clearly, the expectation was that as work became automated, people would have more leisure time, ie the benefits would be shared among all by having shorter working hours. Still makes sense to me.
@eniko I'm going to state fact & cite. When I SPECULATE, It'll be clear. Covid-19 is SARS with a Genetic twist. sars-cov2. 'Cov' indicates the 'twist'. Cite https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2818-3 SARS itself does NOT cause one to develop Diabetes. It IS a RESPIRATORY DISEASE (no cite. Common knowledge). Therefore one can REASONABLY SPECULATE it's the genetic attributes, NOT the disease (SARS) that triggers the diabetes.
Ps. The RISK of developing diabetes is higher in people who have THE SEVERE Symptoms (1/2)
@haschrebellen@MikeDunnAuthor Broken? No. Intentionally designed to keep all the wealth in the hands of capitalist and to keep the working class in a perpetual state of poverty? Yes.
"Die Theorie des Exodus schlägt vor, dass der wirksamste Weg, sich dem Kapitalismus und dem liberalen Staat zu widersetzen, nicht in der direkten Konfrontation besteht, sondern in dem, was Paolo Virno "engagierten Rückzug" genannt hat, d.h. in der massenhaften Abkehr derjenigen, die neue Formen der Gemeinschaft schaffen wollen.
"The theory of exodus proposes that the most effective way of opposing capitalism and the liberal state is not through direct confrontation but by means of what Paolo Virno has called “engaged withdrawal,”mass defection by those wishing to create new forms of community.
Man braucht nur einen Blick in die Geschichte zu werfen, um zu bestätigen, dass die meisten erfolgreichen Formen des Volkswiderstands genau diese Form angenommen haben. Sie bestanden nicht darin, die Macht frontal herauszufordern (das führt in der Regel dazu, dass man abgeschlachtet wird, oder wenn nicht, dass man sich in eine - oft noch hässlichere - Variante der Sache verwandelt, die man zuerst herausgefordert hat), sondern aus der einen oder anderen Strategie des Entgleitens aus ihrem Griff, aus Flucht, Desertion, der Gründung neuer Gemeinschaften."
One need only glance at the historical record to confirm that most successful forms of popular resistance have taken precisely this form. They have not involved challenging power head on (this usually leads to being slaughtered, or if not, turning into some—often even uglier—variant of the very thing one first challenged) but from one or another strategy of slipping away from its grasp, from flight, desertion, the founding of new communities.”
Today in Labor History Nov 2, 1917: The Balfour Declaration proclaimed British support for the creation of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine. The declaration supposedly said "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities."
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> there was never a state of "Muslim Palestine", never. Territorial losses happened after wars launched and lost by Palestine
So there never was a Palestine, but also Palestine (that never existed) launched wars? If you can't even make your bullshit propaganda coherent within a single post, you're going to have a hard time convincing anyone of anything.
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pretty astonishing how people on #mastodon, where you can get a lifetime ban for a single homophobic toot, think random mob thug vigilante violence is a good thing
Today in Labor History February 4, 1974: The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) kidnapped Patty Hearst, granddaughter of American publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, in Berkeley, California. One of the SLA’s demands for releasing Hearst was for her family to pay for millions of dollars’ worth of food to be given out free the poor and unhoused of the San Francisco Bay Area. The Hearst complied, with various community organizations distributing 100,000 bags of groceries at 16 sites in 4 counties, before violence brought the program to a halt. The violence occurred because the crowds were bigger than expected and workers started throwing boxes of food off of moving trucks. As a captive, Patty Hearst was held in a closet, blindfolded, with her hands tied, raped and threatened repeatedly with death. She was later offered the choice of freedom, or joining the SLA. She chose the latter. Consequently, she was later sentenced to 35 years in prison for her complicity in SLA robberies. After several years in prison, her sentence was commuted by President Carter. President Clinton pardoned her. Congressional Representative Leo Ryan was murdered by the Jim Jones cult in Guyana several weeks after collecting signatures for her release. Actor John Wayne, of all people, expressed frustration that everyone accepted the idea that Jones had brainwashed hundreds of his followers into mass suicide, but wouldn’t accept that the SLA could have brainwashed a teenage girl. After her release, Hearst went on to become an actress, appearing in several John Waters films, as well as many others.
@MikeDunnAuthor@weilawei I can see that. If you don't like violence, it pays to be really easy to make peace with and seriously expensive to make war against at the same time.
Consider the situation between us LGBTQ folks in the South vs Evangelical Christians. A classic "tribal enemes" conflict, except that we have no ambition whatsoever against how they live their own lives. All we want from them is to be left alone, and for those born into their society and not liking it to be allowed to leave. Nothing more.
They want the ability to destroy all aspects of our lifestyles even in places we bar them from, they want to be able to torture their own kids if those kids turn out not to be cishet, they want total control.
We cannot live with that-literally. They are fighting for exactly nothing while we are fighting for the right to exist.
The real problem is, my "consumer brain" instantly jumps to the solution of "give me the list of those 100 companies and I'll just quit buying stuff from Them" ...
and that's simply not an option, cuz those companies literally built the flat I live in, the streets I walk on, the utility systems that carry my (I hope it's true) "green" electricity, ship every single product I do buy, including every calorie of food I don't actually grow myself, etc, etc, ad nauseam.
We have built Humanity upon these 100 corporations.
@MikeDunnAuthor Please note, some commercial free titles you've already purchased may already have been removed from your private library and moved to freevee and now have commercials. I'm not kidding.
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Even when delegates are chosen by consensus and are recallable, the delegation of authority inherently creates a separation between decision-makers and those affected by their decisions, which can lead to the consolidation of power and the emergence of hierarchical structures, regardless of the initial intentions.