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adults, while forcing all children above the age of 5 to sit still, be silent, and obey orders for 7-8 hours a day with minimal breaks, reducing their exposure to fresh air and sunlight to almost nothing, forcing them to alter their natural sleeping patterns to increase productivity, and repeatedly telling them their self worth depends on their being able to follow these instructions perfectly for 13 or more years: kids these days are so lazy! they never go outside! they never want to do anything! clearly it’s not because of us!
The way we treat children is extremely inhumane, but so many adults want to dismiss it because it’s so normalized
You… You do realize that’s what it’s like to be a working adult…? And our days are even longer.
thats because an 8 hour work day is extortion and should be illegal. next question.
Either you’ve never had a job or you’re just lazy af. There’s nothing wrong with 9 to 5 jobs. Nobody is forcing people to work them and people need the hours to make more money. People get breaks too.
Please take a biology class & get some help. People shouldnt have to do work 80% of the day to survive.
@captainjack1999
1. the eight–hour work-day is cruelty
2. capitalism is forcing people to work. i could just quit my job and hang out at home – but then i would lose my house and most likely starve to death, because of the way our economy works.
3. breaks for most establishments are a mere 30 minutes for an 8-hour shift; at my first job, for a 6-hour shift, your break would only be 15 minutes and any longer shift would only get 30. studies say people are more productive if for every hour you work, you get a 15-minute break – meaning, for an 8-hour shift, you’d need an hour-long break, and so on and so forth.
the way modern society views work is unhealthy for loads of reasons, not just what i mentioned here. the fact that we’re preparing children for such a torturous lifestyle is horrific.
Also like…. small children are not adults. Small children should not be held to the same standards as adults. Even if the 8 hour work day WAS healthy, it would be inhumane to hold a small child to the same standard.
The school system was literally designed to train people for factory work back when child labour was legal so that should tell you how fucked that is
I love how y’all assume it wasn’t even worse under communism.
communism would definitely be worse but this shit ain’t right either
~homeschool~
tbh that seems like the best option
Only if your parents have enough time/knowledge to teach you properly. My mom had a baby my second year of homeschooling so I played with blocks and dinosaur toys all day. Went back to public school after two years of alt school and knew jack shit. All my teachers were like “You should have learned this in grades 4-7 so we’ll skip that section” and I was sitting there confused because those were the years I spent playing Virtual Villagers on my ipod.
It’s very hard for one or even two people to teach all the subjects a child needs to know in life, and if your parents aren’t putting the work in (often on top of parenting other children and working their own jobs) then homeschooling is possible the worst thing you could do to your child in terms of school. There’s a reason teachers need to have a teaching degree.
From what I’ve seen, homeschooling tends to be very hit or miss. Some kids get an extreme jump start to their education, others, like me, don’t get any of the support they need and never learn a single thing.
Plus homeschool doesn’t do jack fucking shit for the fact that the modern work expectation is ridiculous. Regardless of how you were schooled and even how much school you actually completed, at the end of the day you still have to get an adult job, and many adult jobs are inhumane in their treatment.
And frankly? I’m so tired of “it wouldn’t be better under communism either so stop complaining about this concept in capitalism” as an argument. I’m sure there’s a sizable faction of people reblogging and supporting these posts about flaws in the treatment of people in capitalism because they honestly (but incorrectly) believe that communism would be better. But a lot of us, like me, simply want people to be treated better and aren’t advocating for communism. Look at my Tumblr or just ask me and it’s clear what my opinions are on communism.
“it wouldn’t be better under communism” isn’t the point. The point is that people are having unrealistic and unhealthy work expectations placed on them and it would actually increase their productivity if these expectations weren’t placed on them, if the fact that mental and physical health has been shown to go to shit when these kind of expectations are placed on people isn’t enough for you.
Capitalism is fundamentally flawed. So is communism. This isn’t really news. The point is that we need to treat everyone, both adults and children, better with regards to work expectations. I don’t see how “these expectations in capitalism are detrimental to people and we should change them” is at least inherently advocating for communism. That’s not the fucking point.
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