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How is this something that still happens in this world?

A #lawsuit accused #Hyundai of using #child #labor in its #Alabama facilities. The U.S. Department of Labor #sued the #South #Korean auto giant, along with a connected staffing #agency and #supplier, for allegedly #employing #children under the age of 14.

https://qz.com/hyundai-motor-kia-underage-child-labor-alabama-laverne-1851509892

"I'm up to the "I dunno maybe #children #working 13 hour shifts is bad, guys" part of Capital and it feels important to inform #people that haven't read it yet that #capitalists in the 19th century were not by any means wringing their hands and twirling their mustaches about #employing children to squeeze out #profits, they were hiring "experts" to write #newspaper articles for them, explaining how "well, the #socialists have these big demands about an 8-hour #work day, and taking Saturdays off, but it's actually just so complicated, it's too complicated for most people to understand, we just NEED to hire children for night shifts because the stamina of their strong, youthful bodies is the only way we can survive as a #business! It's #science, you see. #Economics doesn't work like that, just ask our economics professors at #Oxford. You CAN'T turn a profit only working people 8 hours! Trust the experts, they know. It's just so complicated..."

That exact infuriating cadence that you read in New York Times articles, in the Atlantic Monthly, in the WaPo and all the other #bourgeois rags where "everything is so complicated, and it's actually a lot more complicated than you think.." that has been around since the beginning. It is nothing new. So the next time you see some op-ed from Matt #Yglesias or any of those other guys huffing their own farts about how "complicated" #everything is, and how "unrealistic" a 30-hour work week is, remember that Marx was dealing with that exact class of "intellectuals" "explaining" how working 13 hours at age 10 was "vital" to the "moral fibre" of those poor #kids."

https://www.tumblr.com/anarchistfrogposting/729298518923165696?source=share

“The #working class and the #employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of the working #people, and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of #life.

Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the #workers of the #world #organise as a class, take possession of the means of production, abolish the #wage #system, and live in harmony with the #earth.”

https://www.tumblr.com/nando161mando/728303244374392832?source=share

"The whole #Reddit thing is an especially striking example of #corporate brain rot because, like, they managed to build their entire #business model on the back of #exploiting vast quantities of unpaid #volunteer #labour, and successfully convinced the entire #Internet that this is a normal state of affairs. How do you fuck that up? How do you convince yourself that instituting a de facto demand for your very nearly 100% volunteer #workforce to #pay you for the ability to use the tools that are required to do their #job is anything other than cutting your own throat?"

"Like, do they just not grasp the #fundamentals of their own business model? Do they not realise that they're a for-profit business in the unimaginably envious position of #employing a largely volunteer workforce? That's the only place I can imagine the #idea coming from of going to #people who doing the work of #employees for free and saying "actually, you should pay us for the privilege of working for us"."

https://www.tumblr.com/anarchonist/720249444284678144?source=share

psst...the #working #class and the #employing class have #nothing in #common. pass it on!