It is sadly not a satire article and comment section there has taken it quite seriously as well.
I would have posted an archive.org snapshot instead but the latter refuses to crawl the site due to pay wall restrictions.
It is sadly not a satire article and comment section there has taken it quite seriously as well.
I would have posted an archive.org snapshot instead but the latter refuses to crawl the site due to pay wall restrictions.
Yeah… This is definitely the writing of someone who definitely didn’t have to work as a child.
From ages 13-16 I had to work in my uncle’s machine shop every summer threading bolts for the local GM plant. I didn’t learn anything other than my family is filled with cheap assholes, and now the smell of vegetable coolant makes me sick to my stomach.
Btw if anyone has ever driven around in an early 00s Yukon, there’s a good chance that it was put together with bolts fabricated by a 13 year old.
This sort of anecdote is important, because it’s too easy to claim that working for your family is an exception, or that kids should be able to help out with the family business.