Lazlo Makes The Case For Child Labor
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🗓️ 4 May 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Did you see this? It says that 10 year olds were working at a McDonald's in Kentucky. |
| 0:04.6 | Oh, yeah, I just assumed when I saw that, that it meant that they're someone had their kids coming in to work with them, right? |
| 0:09.6 | Like, I don't know, I guess your mom didn't have you probably never had a, like, did you, well, your dad, did he take you to work ever? |
| 0:15.8 | Like I got to take you to work. Yeah, snowcolders, you have to go to work with them to drop off groceries sometimes, right? |
| 0:22.8 | Like sometimes you know, your parent takes you to work. Yeah, like if he got called some time after working, |
| 0:26.2 | like, hey, jumping in the car, let's go. Well, just carry cases of green beans or something with them. Yeah, my mom would even like pay me cash, you know, |
| 0:32.8 | okay, thanks for your help today. I'll give you a, you know, well, I mean, I would work like all day. We would have to go get a house packed up |
| 0:39.0 | or whatever. And so I would go do it with her. And I did that. I don't know for a long time. It seems like I was pretty young and did it |
| 0:46.3 | until I was a teenager. And then I actually got a job for them. But this story sounds pretty bad. It doesn't McDonald's in Kentucky has been |
| 0:51.9 | fine for hiring to unpaid 10 year old children. Well, you're not really hiring them. Are you? If they're unpaid making them work, it's |
| 0:58.7 | slave labor. Right. For hiring to unpaid 10 year old children. And at times making them work as late as 2 a.m. The Department of Labor says, I |
| 1:06.6 | know, I see these headlines, like, oh, okay, someone took their kid to work and I move on. The two children would prepare and |
| 1:12.4 | distribute food orders, clean the restaurant, work at the drive through window and operate a register. The Labor Department said, if you went to a |
| 1:19.9 | drive through and you're like, drive the old right, I would be concerned. Do they have the hat on? Are they wearing the |
| 1:25.4 | headpiece? You wouldn't care. Not my business. You know, I'd care if they screwed up my order. I'd be like, what is it? |
| 1:32.1 | Kids days? You are who are you going to add? What really? Wait, you go to the drive through in a 10 year old kid's going to |
| 1:38.2 | head on and he goes, that'll be $7. You give him $7. Please drive through. One of you two are calling the cops. No, he's going to call |
| 1:44.9 | me. I say, how old are you? You do? Absolutely. Not me. That's my mom would definitely say that. How old are you? |
| 1:51.2 | I think I don't mean to be offensive, but how old are you? I just assumed. I have Andy Melonakis. I know. That's why I don't want to be |
| 1:59.0 | offensive. Exactly. Well, that's what I'm going to ask. It is offensive. I'm not asking. It's offensive if they have one of |
| 2:03.7 | those growth things. Who are you going to be asking? How many times do I get that drug? Just because I don't want to be |
| 2:10.5 | caring. And Melonakis has told you how offended he gets by that and how humiliating is and how he's tired of the |
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