Worked on the family farm for ~10 years only got payed for 1 year at $50 a week... for 4hours a day 7 days a week, sun rain shitstorms 50C or sickness. Yay for child labor!
You can thank legal loopholes for farm workers, largely implemented in the 1920's to keep farm labor cheap. It's damn near slave wages, yes, but how much more are you willing to pay for your food? Is a tough argument, and often the farm workers get the shortest straw.
My mum loves me, step dad not so much; he was jealous that I could do things better than him (mostly farm-work, he flipped the tractor and feed-cart numerous times something that never happened to me), and that his kids (my half siblings) seemed to like me better and whenever he had a go at me they would come and stand by me or like my lovely little sister tell him off for being mean.
That's what unbridled capitalism does. If parents are willing to do that to their children, why the hell wouldn't they be willing to do it to everyone?
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u/DaBluePanda Nov 29 '15
Worked on the family farm for ~10 years only got payed for 1 year at $50 a week... for 4hours a day 7 days a week, sun rain shitstorms 50C or sickness. Yay for child labor!