We Uncovered the Corporations Bringing Back Child Labor in America | Asmongold Reacts 

Minimum drinking age only applies for licensed premises, 'kids' can already get a beer after a hard days work at home.

That’s such an immature response. There’s a purpose to be made here, and using alcohol as a counter argument is incredibly ridiculous. Even as an adult alcohol turns them into children. Its obvious alcohol is out of the question in all cases, never for adults on the job.

@@malbasedvalentine3210 I don't think so, when you boil it down. It's all rational decision making. And that's the part of the brain that isn't yet developed for a child. It's in the video where it isn't developed until the mid 20s.

@@malbasedvalentine3210 Lemme guess your American?

@@malbasedvalentine3210 makes perfect sense to an Aussie. Drinking a few beers after a labor job is a norm here. Would be weird if you couldn't go and get a pub meal and drink after working a manual labor job. It's sort of like Australian identity.

What's even crazier is the kobalt mines...

@@boomerwow8482 I have a little flag there, Im not American. Whatever you wanna call it, Diploma or Graduation, if they dont get it then corps get a new supply of low paid wage slaves.

If you're staying at that job, it's not just their fault.

That sounds like a them problem. If they are complacent enough to wanna stay in that position their whole lives then theres nothing else to be done for them.

​@@boomerwow8482😢😮😮😢😮😢

Its only getting worse from here. Big business has too strong a grip on the world.

@@thevoicestoldmetoagain4627 Yes. Monopolies strip capitalism from any market-driven benefits.

Trump is bad mkaaay?

Businesses pay what they can pay. "Living wage" has increased astronomically in the last century thanks to Democrat policy. Let's abolish income tax maybe instead so you have more money to spend. Duhh

Define livable wage lol

Was it Hemp or Cannabis, cus they are different plants

I swear people really could do to pick up the notion of "if everyone just stopped paying their taxes at once" We could take this shit back within a month. But no we stay willingly ignorant and let them sell us for what. 4k?

​@@Aelethil you're so close to getting it and yet so far

@@marcag9810 Keep tellin yourself that.

@@Aelethil NPC response, it doesn't even make sense in this context.

​​​@@ayoCCabsolutely have to disagree there. I remember hearing about one of the guys at Enron openly stating something along the lines of "No matter what rules Washington comes up with, (they) have plenty of smart people who will find a way to make money", which is an attitude all too many companies seem to have. You need them to either full-on get arrested or go bankrupt without a bailout for people like that to stop, and frankly the fines would need to be exponentially higher for these fines to be anything more than essentially a simple business expense.

for corporations breaking the law is just an operational expense

@@phosgene87 exactly!

Fines are just the cost of doing business when you're a megacorp or a billionaire

The rough draft should be something like this. whenever these companies get caught they should be fined on two criteria: 1. if these children were adults, what wages would they have been paid for the amount of work they do a day as well as how long they have worked, each instance should be a fine equating this amount. 2. The company will be fined an amount based on how much they have gross profited during this time relative to the ratio broken down to percent of children/adults working there. In other words, if 30% of a company's workers are children, they lose 30% of their gross profit for the period of time this was determined to have happened, If the company is private and unable to pay, the owner will be arrested with a mandatory minimum of 1 year in maximum security prison and company assets will be liquidated. LLC will not protect a private business owner in this case. if the company is public and unable to pay, and if public, the ceo will be arrested or extradited to the united states to be arrested, and the fine will be distributed evenly to the major shareholders who will either pay or also face arrest/extradition to the united states to be arrested, and in the meantime the business will not be allowed to operate within the united states until the fine is paid in full, but will also be federally required to continue paying the salaries of their workers during the shutdown. I call this a "fuck around and find out" law The fine money will go towards social services for unemployment job training as well as snap/tanf, as well as funding an agency that performs surveillance and investigation on companies for child labor. can be new agency or existing agency, ideally moving away from taxpayer burden. If country refuses to extradite to us, we can just forcefully take them out of that country and throw them in jail until they pay. Those countries will disagree but they wont do shit against the strongest military and strongest nuclear power.

At a certain point as a parent, do u just beat the fuck outta the people trying to scam your kids into a coal mine, meat packing, or construction?

@@SoulAtParadise Ik... And the part with the people from a third world country being modern slaves... It hit hard for me because they hired a bunch of them where I work... Like I don't care if they are from a third word coutry, they should be paid an adequete wage as well.. Its just so scummy

@@SoulAtParadise no they can’t

We are going to another Dark Age.... no more mmo´s.

@@N0wheretobefound Well... you should care that they are, because illegal aliens is a big economic problem.

My grandfather never learned to read properly, he was out to work around 10 or 12. You can tell he's not very educated just by talking to him. If this is the way it's going, I feel sorry for future generations.

😂well played

@@anthonydallarosa8314 we're gonna have to fight against 13 year olds for internships

good thing the underage work experience you get wont count towards your job experience time later

Yes minimum, and will compete with hundres of the, to win nothing, they they grow up, ignorant i wander if the law contemplate a good salary and posibility for study and permanent job, what am i talking they will hired the child and when he is about to be 18 and become a legal adult and pay a better salary they will kick him out and bring another child, the kid now has less study experience in a profession that he will have to continue to do, wonderful, as a lawyer if the law contemplate give the child not dangerous job and work sort of an aprentice thing, and protect him not to be kick out the moment he become 18 i agree, i now it wont happen

@@Fourside__ Indeed, it wont count, and the child will get out, with less education and beleiving he deserve to work as a slave

Everyone knows that, even non Americans. In USA you can litteraly pay a fee to avoid prison or even a trial

So.. corporations weren't greedy before Reagan? Ever heard the name Carnegie? Or Rockefeller? Or Ford?

@@Elrog3 "Tightening its grip". That implies there was a grip beforehand. He never said or implied that there wasn't. Context clues, my guy

@@casscody3488 Not necessarily. But fair point that it leaves the possibility open that there was a grip beforehand.

But I highly doubt that kids today will want to work at construction yard, kids are so into get rich schemes now and got scammed for his 40 dollar weekly allowance.

You're probably thinking if Sawstop. The brake jams a block of aluminum into the blade. You just replace the block and the blade.

@@symposes ah I see, then it's not as bad as I remember.

No kid should be forced into work, but the chance to make some money before being booted into the world can be nice.

Yeah, it's a case of, "I did this so you didn't have to,"

@@Ultrajamz I’m not for “forced” but I 100% support letting kids have jobs at 14.

"Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times." You're advocating for the latter.

@@Ultrajamz I agree, but I'd say we already have that. You can do limited work with a permit at ~15 in most places, even earlier in the entertainment industry(although that's another can of worms). The problem is, the corporate fuckwits supporting this are drooling at the idea of a legal, full-time kiddie work force they can toss into whatever dangerous occupation they can imagine.

the worker shortage was artificial. they ghosted so many applicants to apply for PPE Loans that evolved into money grants when the positions weren't filled...also now it seems it was artificially created to use as a trojan horse excuse to bring back child labor

So you dont want kids to get job experience so they can actually learn how to be a part of society?

@@GiRR007 then they should be paid the same wage for the same job. Plus they will push to lower the age all the way back to the single digits. And they will push to pay them less because they are younger. I've worked as a teenager doing some odd jobs. But I got paid shit and that was shit. I've employed teenagers for part time work, but they got paid the exact same wage as an adult. Weirdly I noticed they worked harder when they got paid the same wage. They also only worked like 10-20 hours a week. I don't want to see kids working in slaughter houses or bars, I want them in apprenticeships, learning to program, learning accountancy, learning a sport, getting fit, reading books, volunteering and educating them. They need to finish school/education first before they focus on work which they will do for the rest of their lives.

@@tanotive6182 They aren't going to be doing as good a job nor are they going to working as much so why would they get paid the same? IF they are going to be getting paid adult wages then whats the point of them even being in school? Apprenticeships are fine but expecting employers to be the ones to teach kids instead of their teachers WHILE ALSO paying the kids a wage reserved for people who actually know how to do the job doesnt make sense.

@@Lewtable You hire them for TRAINING and cheaper labor. Not because you need the job done that badly. Thus why you pay them less than normal. Wages HAVE ALWAYS been based on qualifications.... Why wouldnt they be? If you aren't qualified for a job then you likly arent gonna have the job in the first place led alone get paid the same as someone who IS qualified for that job. Getting hired doesnt mean you actually meet the qualifications for the job. You could just be all that's left to fill a position. If pay was strictly based on hours people would be getting paid for doing absolutely the most minute amount of work without actually providing anything its a horrible idea and even still it does happen. If you time isn't worth as much as someone elses then yes your get paid less, that's how supply and demand works. You are suppose to get paid less for having less experience for a job since that means you are more than likely less qualified for that job than someone else. Just because you have the same job as someone else doesn't mean your doing it as well as they are. All of the world exist in a hierarchy, its the natural state of humans to be in hierarchy's. Hierarchy's are nessecarey. If there is an employee whos skills are so poor that there's a notable difference between him and his peers then yes that does mean that said employees should be paid less if not fired. You cant just "pay people more" money doesn't just appear out of nowhere. Not even THE REST OF SOCEITY treats teens as equals, it treats them as children. SO why should jobs treat them as equals when they aren't? No ones forcing them to work, THEY are the ones seeking employment. Its not the jobs lining up to hiring teens with no experience for the same price as someone who actually knows how to do the job.

The US is plunging head first into another Dark Age due to every government being evil at their core and every corporation only thinking about money. Humans as usual creating a hellscape for humans to suffer in and wonder how it got this bad or they indulge in it because they are conditioned/brainwashed to want more stress by daddy corporation. That being said no one in 2023 is going to care if a man or a child has their guts rearranged by a machine.

Isn't that like literally an example in a book from the 1920's that led to a lot of labor and FDA regulations? Asking because it sounds really familiar and trying to place it.

"The Jungle" ​@@naxireal869

Machines will still take our jobs, and children

@@Yggdrasill8 oh yeah, the machines in the meatpacking plants are going to take a lot of children.

But people don't want to Learn trades in America. Every knows it better to have a job that the government can arbitrarily label as non essential.

They also want to allow children to work at some place at 14, mostly restaurants and walmart like. Wich im fine with that.

Canada...isn't that where people think guys like Justin Trudeau are president material ?

These commies saying kids working for their family farm is slavery need to get a real job.

We stop that shit in America cause they don't want us to do shit ourselves

If only OSHA knew what happens 99% of the time they aren't there

@@arctic3007 if they knew, no one would have a job hahah

This is so messed up, how long has this been happening?

I'm _appalled_ that this shit is going on in 2023 in the United States of America... This hypocrisy truly knows no bounds!

That is not legal in the US. that is only common in europe. Training wages below federal minimum is not legal in the US>

@@vladchenkov9215 He is full of shit. It is not legal to pay anyone under federal minimum age regardless of age.

Waiters do

Minecraft mines

You are soft

i had a job at 14, full time in the summer part time through the rest, working fast food, when i was in my mid 20s and was doing some concrete work, we had a 15yr old working with us during the summer full time. I don't see a problem with working if you want, they aren't forcing kids to apply for these jobs, and even now I'm and electrician and I see dads bring there kids in during the summer to help them, from plumbing to laborer shit. Even our company has co-op students, through the school year, running wire, working off ladders, and all the hazards associated with construction

@@ohsnap6506 I did construction from 13-19 evey summer. We are taking about need vs want and companies taking advantage of the kids. You are either to close to topic to think clearly or you just ignored the point completely.

@Alec Ryder If you read the bill, the jobs aren't extreme. And the hours are more restrictive than current active law in California.

Yea i mean i worked on my family farm from age 12 till i left for the military... I think its a good thing if they want to work but certainly not forcing kids to work.

All of that work ethic will be poisoned once they actually enter their first real job as a full-time unskilled employee.

What's the limit of the jobs kids will be allowed to do fire fighters? Oil Rigs?

But that's not a reason to exclude minors from working less than unskilled jobs though? I like Connor as much as the next guy, but that's just where training or supervision comes in. Potentially, you just say minors can't make the food, since there's an element of risk, so they can take orders, and ring them up, where there's cameras to supervise them. Or, you could give them a pamphlet where they explain what is good behavior, and what to do in situations of peer pressure etc. There's a lot of things you could do, to mitigate this exact situation, that doesn't involve cutting all 16 year olds out from an incredible learning opportunity, and ability to build their character and future wallets. There's an insane amount of maturity and character you can gain from having the responsibility of working a job, where they learn incredible life lessons early, along with giving them their own money to think about. There's very little things that are better than giving teenagers actual jobs in developing that kid's future development and opportunities.

@@RS-fy9hb Since when have people on the job ever had to do JUST their job? There's always other obligations and a ton of extra stuff you are told to do as well from managers. Put kids on a workspace and unless you make an absurd amount of laws to keep them from being taken advantage of(and even if those laws do get created there will always be loopholes), there WILL be people willing to bend the rules and force the issue to squeeze out the extra dime from their labor force. Not to mention that companies have a lot of influence over government these days, give them an inch and they'll take a mile, using that crack as a starting point to try and get even worse things legalized "because it's convenient". Unpaid interns are bad enough, lets not encourage them to make children a proper industry. Not that they haven't already done so... *Looks at Troubled Teen Industry* (TTI) Not saying there isn't merits to thinking about these things, but IMO it's just not worth it.

​@n30n They will be after a few years in the mines. Not all of them of course. But enough of them to make a good story.

Well has the parent I would hope you would speak for your child. If they are not getting paid well or just leave the job altogether and just focus on school that when parenting comes into play staying involved.

​@@terrillclark6486 These laws aren't meant for you, me (anymore), or any kids you are considering. As someone who worked legally as a minor, I was paid 6 bucks an hour when the minimum statewide was 8. I was working at a Kumon as a tutor, I think I looked it up at the time and the wage was around 11-13 bucks in most cases. Not one of the teens I was working with said anything and Kumon just got away with it. These laws are meant to exploit poor immigrant families whose parents work from sunrise to sundown, barely making enough to feed their kids. They're trying to form a mini India/china child workforce in the US, using these people to fuel their pockets. This is just the first step, not the last.

@@barban534 o crap I didn’t he even consider that aspect your fing right thanks for the insight this is crazy.

But why would kids take those jobs?

I like your mentality but let’s be real here, besides fryers, the prep saw, and basic knife handling there’s nothing in the restaurant that’s nearly as dangerous as the jobs they’re speaking of in the video

Dont forget that not all companies want to be yerks, if the one that is at comand, cares, the workers and give the child a job he knows it wont be dangerour, but if you put a child and you see the palce, could be a risk for the correct development like you said loud and you lost parcially or totaly your hearing the company must be responsible, also, the heat, how many times you get sick, the company put you in a situation you will get sick have to have a heath plan, dont have ok, did you agree, they read and explain these jobs dangers, no, well the company have to pay. The reason they have, because at 16, you dont understand your rigths, dont understand you are putting your healt on the line, the company must explain you and all workers the danger of the job, or people have experience on it

this was my first thought. bars have long been a way for people to exploit young women. a bar is often a brothel or strip club in disguise not to mention how patrons can get handsy. next they will bring back orphanages so they have a nice slave market to visit so they can pick out their own slaves.

truth. i was raped at my first job at 16 by a coworker in his 30s. this is a huge issue

@@Maatkare god damn

if there are rapist, women especially would get raped.

@@aguspermana8643Well there are, and they do

I wonder if they count it as work experience, or pay any pension beefict

Lmao 😂

100% agree

This assumes that children will choose to work for shit money and in garbage conditions which their parents refuse to.

@@AimbotFreak And you assume they'll have much of a choice. This isn't just going to be wealthy or upper middle class kids who can be picky because they don't need the work anyway.

@@AimbotFreak It's that or kill themselves because they're going to be homeless and starve anyway

​@@AimbotFreak child labor protections exist in part because poor families would just have a bunch of kids and make them work then take all of their earnings.

I'm not for child labor but I would guess theres less electric current in dead flesh

@@arctic3007 all the sales videos for these table saws use sausages to test them...

Let's be real, small businesses are the most common OSHA violators. Which is fine, but still.

@@iBloodxHunter Remember that megacorps push much more of the unsafe labor over to countries that don't have those laws. They would be OSHA violators if the work was done here. Safety is a cost, there is no avoiding the trade-offs. But these issues will also always exist because of stupid people (employers, parents, etc.) Where were his parents in this scenario? I'm not saying they were doing anything wrong, parenting also involves trade-offs.

@No One Really "I remember when i was a *kid*" Kid. 8 at the oldest. Barely old enough to use an oven without adult supervision. And it wasn't the butter that was hot, it was the metal stovepot inside that we burnt ourselves on, the thing that pops the popcorn. Don't try to raise yourself by putting someone else down, especially if you're willfully ignoring context.

@No One Really It was a kid getting burned on a machine an adult told them to operate. Also you've clearly never used a corn machine, the butter is scalding by design and touching it will get you a burn, but expecting someone like you to use your head for a few minutes is too tall an order.

@@Korodarn Actually, it was my father that put me and my sister there. In fact it was my father who helped organize the event and brought those two teenage boys along. Since they bailed and someone had to serve the popcorn and me and my sister were helping them till they just..wandered off or whatever, well, y'know.

Same here, but for me it was a way for my dad to babysit me as a kid so I didnt even get payed lmao

@@Jaaski1337 ah, child slavery then lol

@@douglasmurdoch7247 yeah but it was fun

You work at McDonalds, you DO NOT deserve better wages. You don't deserve the 15$+ an hour you get right now due to bullshit laws. What you are going to do by chasing this delusion that your work is worth that much, is get replace with robots in less than 10 years. Congratufuckinglations. All those entry level jobs will be gone.

Bingo, the moment unions, start to ask for fees, and care for politics, instead of protecting the worker, but true, unions, should be something for all dagerous works, or that have negotiation for contracts and contancs with legal advisors, these create a bad image about unions. Also laws against not firing a worker for health leave, there are but no one follow them

I used to be good for nothing, another typical I was a guy that fell through the cracks of education and society and then was failed by my own parents. I just lived check by check in restaurants hating my life. I tried to kill myself like 4-5 times. Then one day I stopped listening to my managers about my dream of being a tattoo artist. I pursued it prepared to not make much money but at least do what I love. To my surprise within my first year of being a professional (after I graduated my apprenticeship) I already make over 100k a year. Within just 3 years of investing in myself I went from making like 24k to over 100k all I had to do was just chase my dreams and it was easier than I thought it would be

​@@KrysnhaThere's a good reason for unions to care about polítics. Ronald Reagan destroyed unions (good thing our masters have always voluntarily paid theit workers more with increased productivity).

@@TheHauntedKiwi yes it is true

Yeah, and I know a bunch of people wanting to transition kids despite all the lifetime health issues it brings. At least work can be a positive opportunity. Everyone here is seeing the bad side of a double edged sword. The antiwork crowd at work.

Dangerous info 😂

Brainwash the kids to think they deserve more than 15$/hr working at McDonalds so they can fight for more, and get replaced by robots because the value of their work actually was inflated already. Morons. Enjoy all those entry level jobs vanishing.

This just reminded me that Americans want to ban TikTok and worry about kids being on social media...but all good to send them to a slaughter house or factory 🙃

*Looks at receipt* small lemonade, 20 burgers with no patties, 60 nuggets, and 20 packets of sauce "All I wanted was a number 4"

Yes I'm sure they will have 14 year Olds on the industrial lathe the first day, not brooming saw dust 3 days a week. Softie

@@subhsubh3002 I’m just saying as a whole it’s a bad outcome XD I’m all for apprenticeships and such but as a whole, way too much room for bad things

@@thellamapool2328 I also agree that alot of essential positions are underpaid, that's a different convo. My kids be working their asses off doing landscaping learning work ethic and a useful skill for later on.

@@subhsubh3002 What if this gets worse and your grand-kids get exploited with cheap labor later on? Shouldn't we have some concern as a society a whole?

But thats the thing, isnt it? They want the child workers precisely because they can get away with not paying them properly.

At that point, just rob people. Less experience needed, and it's an easy start up business

Some kids are not lazy and what to work

Yeah that's not really the take away you should take from corpos trying to get children into harmful work, you want to work as a kid go deliver newspapers or let them do chores around the house like a sane individual.

what are you talking about? Im from a small central america country and child labor laws are a thing. Buying cigs and working under the table at 16 is not the same as legally being paid shit for work adults do not want to do, due shitty conditions and shitty payment

@@jurgenbrenes8332 buddy i said mexico and mexico has multiple states if you don't know and each state has municipios and municipios has small town just like the state of Jalisco where I grew up has multiple towns because Jalisco is surrounded by mountains idk where you from buddy but that was my case.

@@MrEbizio Jurgen is based

@@SoulAtParadise not if you put "made in china" on it, then you expect it to be cheap and just good enough to not fall apart. although i have to say, the chinese often make super quality products, but because we often design somethin in the EU for example, then let it get manufactured in china, the quality ends up bein bad, not because of china and child labor nah, but because of the company owners wanting to spend as little as possible XD

"Land of freedom"

Indeed, then they ask themself why no one visit them at the nursing homw, i agree with apprentischip and if they dont want to pay, at least teach them and the work count as labor and benefict for pension, also moderate the hours, but nowe want they work as adults, and pay them less

I wasn't exploited. I made bank working in high school. I know kids who earned a down payment on a house in high school.

MONEY AND CORRUPTION 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

Yeah I know a lot of people like that to. I can imagine across the scale dem and republican there is no blue collar person at my machining shop who thinks the roll back is a bad idea. Not everyone needs to go to college. That mentality has caused half the issues we are currently facing. We have a huge issue with a lack of people with most trade skills. More plumbers, mechanics, carpenters, builder, machinists, farmers, and much more. Someone has to actually produce for a living and its not the crap ton of people with degrees in politics.

Lol i know right. Saw an article about giving harsh fines to people who didnt have permits from the government to grow weed and the article and first few paragraphs kept repeating death sentence again and again.

just because you had a shitty upbringing, does not mean child labor laws are there for no reason.

@@jurgenbrenes8332 you don't think there are more kids that don't want jobs?

@@Wargreymon07 That's because of systemic issues causing wealth disparity, which makes more kids needs jobs they shouldn't have to take though. You shouldn't have been put through that as a child, and I'm sorry you had to experience that. Bringing back child labor is just going to increase outcomes like this though. If your parents were employed, they were likely being underpaid, which caused your need to work. We need equitable solutions, like more profits going to the laborers at a given company, rather than being sucked up by a few executives. Ensuring quality minimum living standards for families is what we should be striving towards -- not tossing kids into jobs which could distract from their schooling or even cause bodily harm.

@@jackeagleeye3453 you act like pouring a drink is dangerous and stocking shelves are killing kids, the most dangerous job a 14 year old would have in a meat packing plant is cleaning the work areas.

@@jackeagleeye3453 A cattle gun is used to kill the animals not the sharp tools that are used to cut the animals, and I'm sure they are using a power washer to clean equipment just like one you would use at a car wash but watch out kids car washes are dangerous