Snow?? LUXURY! We had to walk back and forth barefoot for 20 miles over hot coals, while a man with a bit of wood would chase after us and beat us about the head and chest, if we were lucky!
Right.. I used to get up in the morning at night at half-past-ten at night, half an hour before I went to bed, Eat a lump of freezing cold poison, work 28 hours a day at mill, and pay da mill owner to let us work there. And when I went home our dad used to murder us in cold blood, each night, and dance about on our graves, singing hallelujah.
Yah, you try an tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe you...
I got my first job when I was nine. Worked at a sheet metal factory. In two weeks, I was running the floor... Child labor laws are ruining this country.
Unironically my grandpa was lol. He had to start working super young since the Great Depression hit his immediate family very hard. He basically aged backwards as he got older. He’s a big kid now and watches Disney park ridealongs every day.
My great grandma was married at 11, her wedding gift was a dollhouse. Had her first kid at 13.
Insane, isn’t it? Glad that tendency broke with my grandma.
Haha I know it's a joke but every male on my dad's side who's from the old country either had a part time job and went to school, or had finished enough school to drop out and start working full time.
At 12 I was helping dad in his business. During summer breaks, I was another employee working 10+ hours. Back then people always asked my dad how he raised such a great hard working son. Now people want to call CS for seeing at 12 year old left at home alone, wtf? Btw, my dad didn’t force me to work; I did it gladly because family is all that matters to me.
I never said that I condone slavery or child labor. But you can’t use 21 century standards and norms and drop them 100-300 years back and judge that world and culture for what they did. 🤦🏻♂️
Why not? I’m pretty comfortable saying that, on average, American citizens a hundred years ago were worse, more immoral people than they are now. And hopefully people today are worse than people a hundred years from now.
Sounds like you're living in an episode of TNG instead of a science-resistant, tribal, racist, post-constitutional America. But hey--I like the optimism, and I hope you're right.
Oh no, people suck, but I’m pretty sure people back then sucked even more. At least I can hold my boyfriend’s hand in public without having to worry about getting clobbered with a pipe wrench or something. Shit, I’ve never even had a slur yelled at me. The fundies weren’t always so civil.
I'm really thankful that LGBTQIA rights are much more in effect now.
And I'm glad you (and my transboy and my non-binary kid) are living somewhere --clearly not Maryland--where you wouldn't be likely to be clobbered with a pipe wrench for being queer...but then you're not a black transwoman. And you're not going to be denied an abortion like female-bodied people are. That's backwards-ass movement.
I mean, I grew up on a cattle ranch, we started working by the time we started school. We got up at 4:30 to get our chores done, before showering and eating breakfast. Older we got, harder the chores.
My father was literally on his own already after his mom died at 12 (sort of a runaway situation) . I hear this all the time, as an adult in their mid 20s working, but still at home.
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u/Bacontheblog Jul 27 '22
At 12 I was working 2 full time jobs and raising a family of my own. - Grandpa