Here’s another sacred cow that needs slaughtering.
RT:
A Brazilian politician landed in hot water after calling for a loosening of the child labor laws, pointing to the Olympic silver medal brought home by 13-year-old skateboarder Rayssa Leal. Critics roundly condemned the idea.
Sostenes Cavalcante, a Democratas Party deputy for Rio de Janeiro, took to Twitter on Monday to propose a revision to Brazil’s child labor statute – which bars anyone under the age of 14 from holding a job – suggesting Leal’s silver medal showed that younger kids are capable of being employed.
“Brazilian children aged 13 cannot work, but skater Rayssa Leal won the silver medal at the Olympics,” he said, adding “Hey! It’s just a thought… Congratulations to our Olympic medalist!” while urging for a “revision of the Statute of Children and Adolescents now!”
In another tweet later on Monday, Cavalcante cited an excerpt of the labor law that sets 14 as the minimum working age, saying he would like to see that particular article changed.
The skateboard girl is really good.
Frankly, I don’t even understand how this is possible. I guess she is just a legit “prodigy.”
But yeah, we have the same taboos around child labor that we have around women’s oppression, slavery, the Holocaust, colonialism, or any of these other hoaxes.
I assume that child workers were abused at some point, but banning children from working because it is possible to abuse a child worker is like banning knives because it is possible to stab someone. Throughout history, children have worked.
I know for a fact I would have preferred work to school.
The real reason child labor laws exist is that the state wants children indoctrinated, which can’t happen if they’re learning a trade. They have to be locked in an indoctrination center, where their behavior is modified and all of their basic freedoms are taken from them.
If children are given freedoms and responsibilities, they mature faster, and they become healthier adults.
I’ve been reading about early America, and these people would send 8-year-old boys on overnight journeys alone with horses. By 13, “children” were often getting married.
When are people supposed to develop into maturity in this society? They go to school for basically 20 years. It’s no wonder all of these people are comfortable with the government being their mommy. They’ve never developed any kind of personal independence.
I just thought of this right now, because this Brazilian said this thing about this skateboard chick, but I’ve been meaning to discuss at length the topic of the infantilization of Western man, and the need to reinstitute child labor.
This is probably the one thing I do really agree with Elon Musk about.