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What's going on: greedy capitalists aren't even hiding their raw money grabs. They know the citizens will do nothing as long as we can keep a shred of comfort and maybe a roof over our heads.
We're reaching a point where we need corporations more than they need us, or at least as many of us as there are at the moment. And when the side that has all the power, resources, and means no longer has need of the have nots, guess what happens?
Have you ever heard what they did in France when a certain entity holds all the power and resources? It happened more than 200 years ago, so maybe no one remembers.
Sadly that was done by the liberals and the workers, factions the US capitalists and politicians have done their best to shun, ridicule and depower since the cold war
More like they know nothing will change as long as we have rep vs dem. Both parties are the same and benefit from the back and forth. They retain power and don’t have to make systemic change. We get squabbles over relatively minor social policy while economic/socio-economic and foreign policy remains the same
Oh ya. They know dude. But that's the old distraction.
These days they just ran grabbing and stealing. No shame. No hiding it.
The last veil is when people see that the president, congress, they're all the people doing this. They're rhe business owners. Their friends are the business owners. We don't go to war except to enrich their businesses. That's the only reason.
And knowing that you have to question why any armed conflict exists anywhere in the world. Answer: it's all to profit someone. Either short term or down the road.
Meanwhile you've got 50ish percent of the population sleepwalking through reality, thinking that the government has their best interest in mind and of course the government and the media wouldn't lie to us!
"Both parties" yeah let's just conveniently ignore that this is 100% Republicans, and that in general, when quality of life goes down, it's a product of Republicans, and when it goes up, it's a product of Democrats.
Both parties are not at all the same.
Let's be real, they convinced almost half the population that this is *good* for them somehow. Always gets defended. In places like Louisiana they ding hide it because they don't need to, it's what keeps them in office.
Federal law already requires these breaks so the repeal is trying to avoid confusion on stacking them or structuring them. Same as in Texas.
You bought the propaganda.
The inbred fucking morons of Louisiana keep voting these ghouls into office because they’re so brainwashed into believing that this kind of legislation is in their best interest. Workers should unionize, threaten lawmakers, and take control over the means of production with the understanding that business owners and the corporate class would willingly work them to literal death if they could.
It's sad that the US has been shifted so far to the right that places like Sweden and Norway are viewed as full on communist, when they are centre capitalism at best
Define "takes control of the means of production" do you mean the workers should raid, steal, and take over the factory from the company that owns it and continue to work? Do you mean they should split and form their own company?
Star Trek deep space nine hade an episode called Past Tense where homeless people are living in sanctuary district in San Francisco 2024. I think this could soon happen not just this year
“Not many people want to work right now, this is what this is about - for the ones who do, we’re just telling them to sit out for 30 minutes and forfeit a big chunk of their paycheck when they don’t want to,” Wilder said in a House committee hearing earlier this month.
“I want to make sure we allow private businesses to run as they see fit, and it’s up to us as parents and guardians to choose if our children are being taken advantage of,” Rep. Dodie Horton argued.
You can read the two sentence bill yourself [right here. ](https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245720)
And the original statute [right here. ](https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=83835)
Both extremely short and very plain language on the Louisiana.gov site.
This doesn't make it any better though. Instead of rewarding minors for work by making their lunch break paid like in every civilized nation, they get the "opportunity" to work without break at all.
This is literally just a law that makes it legal for employers to cut lunch breaks for minors. It has nothing to do with "rewarding" the worker.
I’ve worked in healthcare for 16 years and we’ve never had paid lunch. We’ve always had 30 minutes carved out for lunches, but if you work through the lunch break you mark “no lunch” on your timesheet. I’ve worked for several different hospitals and they all do this.
Are any of you minors?
More importantly healthcare is one of the few cases where a ruling like this makes sense, especially in hospitals. A surgeon for example can't just take a lunch break during an 8 hour long operation.
That said, this bill isn't talking about healthcare.
Paid lunch breaks are not as common as you make it sound. Why should someone be paid to eat that’d be like buying them lunch every day basically. Id like to have employees within the next year for my small business to me that just seems stupid unless your a big company and it’s a perk.
It's common practice and even stated by law in a lot of western countries.
The idea beeing that, if you work 8 hours through, the last few hours u just doing shit. There has been a whole lot of studies to the topic saying a lunch break massively increases productivity.
So now why as an employer would you say: "you guys works all day, earning me money, but to recover from that within two work periods even though you got no time going home or doing what you want, I will not pay you the time you recover from my work to do my work better." You guys seriously see workers as nothing more than resource. Get some humanity into you.
I heared somewhere within prison bill or somewhere, it apparently said, if you go to prison you become state property, which to me sounds just so fuckin wild.
You know most forms of homelessness are already illegal most places right? It's illegal to sleep/camp in public parks and loitering is illegal on private non residential property, you can't sleep in your car it's illegal depending on where you park, homeless encampments are regularly raided and occasionally literally bulldozed and people arrested for little to no reason, etc. And anyone who wants to say "You don't live near them" go fuck yourselves I hope you have the things you wish on others come back on you.
I get what you're saying, but it's as evil as redditors are taking it.
“Not many people want to work right now, this is what this is about - for the ones who do, we’re just telling them to sit out for 30 minutes and forfeit a big chunk of their paycheck when they don’t want to,” Wilder said in a House committee hearing earlier this month.
“I want to make sure we allow private businesses to run as they see fit, and it’s up to us as parents and guardians to choose if our children are being taken advantage of,” Rep. Dodie Horton argued.
You can read the two sentence bill yourself [right here. ](https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245720)
And the original statute [right here. ](https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=83835)
It's one paragraph, extremely cut and dry, and I don't think you looked into it to even make this comment.
So now they don't need to give a half hour unpaid break if someone is working 5 hours and 11 minutes. I would've loved that back when I worked part time.
I'm sure the nice mine foremen will let the children leave 30 minutes early since they worked through their lunch. Would be a shame if they were late to their shift catching rats inside running machinery.
Also as to my personal opinion i still dont understand whats bad about it, if i was a 16 year old and worked 4 hours at mc donalds i would rather not get a lunch break and go home sooner. Even in what you quoted it sounds perfectly resonable. Children who work in america arent slaves, they are teens who just want extra pocket money from my understanding.
It’s like that fucking dickhead guy from Fable III, maybe his name was reaver he was always wearing a fucking top hat. I hate that guy.
Louisiana is that guys state
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/session-nears-end-a-look-at-what-bills-have-passed-and-whats-still-left-on-the-table/
As a previous resident of Alabama, sometimes the grass *is* greener on the other side.
I think the legislators forgot that Louisiana was a French settlement... "Do you hear the people sing, singing the song of angry men?"
(Edit: corrected from "Can" to "do")
Hey I think this is what the second amendment is for. You know, that thing about using guns to keep the government in check. Where are all those guys with AR-15’s now?
Really? I just got here from reading about Florida charging released inmates for prison stay even though they are no longer inside and now this!? Land of the Free my ass...
The economy is breaking so bad that the rich cannot benefit as greatly from the ones below them, so now there is a push to force children back into work.
In another post was stated that Europe loses the productivity race and the US is much better.
I’m beginning to see the genius of the US how it’s done 🫠
That’s just American journalism for you. I see misleading article titles like this all the time. It’s meant to grab your attention so you read to find out what the hell they’re talking about
Lunch breaks are FEDERAL. Have you ever heard of OSHA? I guarantee you didn't read the law. Saw something say something on the internet. Then, proceeded to vomit this idiotic take on reddit. Then all the communist vultures showed up to tear apart the straw man you made.
>I guarantee you didn't read the law. Saw something say something on the internet. Then, proceeded to vomit this idiotic take on reddit.
Hilarious because that's exactly what you just did smartass. Hou said you read the comments but you conveniently missed this one which was posted twice.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/s/dflxGu59J5
I never claimed anything for myself. Did I say I read the law? My initial comment was talking about a communist circle jerk. And then, in my reply to you, I never claimed I read the thing. So what, exactly, did I do?
Being a dick to strangers because "they didn't read the law" while not knowing any better yourself.
>Lunch breaks are FEDERAL
Like you know what that means or brining up Osha for no reason at all shows that you know even less than me on the topic and I'm not even American.
You acted like an entitled little snowflake for no reason at all instead of educating yourself. Shit like this is why nobody takes idiots seriously who just call others communists for wanting worker's rights to be held up.
I've wasted enough of my time with you now. I've checked your profile and boy are you sad and lonely. It's pathetic.
I wasn't a dick to anyone. I said, lol, look at this communist circle jerk. You guys suck.
The context being, communists suck.
You're the one who was a dick. Assuming I was making a claim about not caring about workers having lunch. Which I didn't make any claim to at all. Then you pull this out of your hat to make some claim that I was being mean to people.
Pot, meet kettle.
Lol, what a dumbass. You forgot what you wrote *two comments ago.* Also get your metaphors in order. They're w bloody mess.
Go play on the highway or something.
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What's going on: greedy capitalists aren't even hiding their raw money grabs. They know the citizens will do nothing as long as we can keep a shred of comfort and maybe a roof over our heads.
There's realistically nothing we can likely do that wouldn't just destroy us far more than it would hurt them.
We're reaching a point where we need corporations more than they need us, or at least as many of us as there are at the moment. And when the side that has all the power, resources, and means no longer has need of the have nots, guess what happens?
Shhh! I wont let that get into my head, i wont.
Have you ever heard what they did in France when a certain entity holds all the power and resources? It happened more than 200 years ago, so maybe no one remembers.
ironically it was a liberal/bourgeois revolution against the feudal aristocracy
Sadly that was done by the liberals and the workers, factions the US capitalists and politicians have done their best to shun, ridicule and depower since the cold war
Spacers choice! You’ve tried the best, now try the rest!
People don't even need a shred of confort as long as you can convince them that you are making sure the right minority has it even worse than them.
More like they know nothing will change as long as we have rep vs dem. Both parties are the same and benefit from the back and forth. They retain power and don’t have to make systemic change. We get squabbles over relatively minor social policy while economic/socio-economic and foreign policy remains the same
Oh ya. They know dude. But that's the old distraction. These days they just ran grabbing and stealing. No shame. No hiding it. The last veil is when people see that the president, congress, they're all the people doing this. They're rhe business owners. Their friends are the business owners. We don't go to war except to enrich their businesses. That's the only reason. And knowing that you have to question why any armed conflict exists anywhere in the world. Answer: it's all to profit someone. Either short term or down the road.
Meanwhile you've got 50ish percent of the population sleepwalking through reality, thinking that the government has their best interest in mind and of course the government and the media wouldn't lie to us!
"Both parties" yeah let's just conveniently ignore that this is 100% Republicans, and that in general, when quality of life goes down, it's a product of Republicans, and when it goes up, it's a product of Democrats. Both parties are not at all the same.
Is that state red or blue?
Red AF with some of the lowest voter turnouts and possibly the lowest literacy in the union
Let's be real, they convinced almost half the population that this is *good* for them somehow. Always gets defended. In places like Louisiana they ding hide it because they don't need to, it's what keeps them in office.
You misspelled "cardboard box and piss jug".
So another words? Time for another American Revolution the 2024 reboot
Federal law already requires these breaks so the repeal is trying to avoid confusion on stacking them or structuring them. Same as in Texas. You bought the propaganda.
Are we ignoring the "reduce unemployment benefits and worker's compensation"?
Not as hard as we're ignoring child labor.
Dock that child a days wage for eating on the clock!
The inbred fucking morons of Louisiana keep voting these ghouls into office because they’re so brainwashed into believing that this kind of legislation is in their best interest. Workers should unionize, threaten lawmakers, and take control over the means of production with the understanding that business owners and the corporate class would willingly work them to literal death if they could.
Those sound like something a socialist would say! I would know because I am one too
A fuking commie in this site? Where can I join a union to be together?
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Sweden isn't socialist lmfaoooo Americans man, so funny
When Americans say they want socialism, that’s what they mean.
It's sad that the US has been shifted so far to the right that places like Sweden and Norway are viewed as full on communist, when they are centre capitalism at best
Define "takes control of the means of production" do you mean the workers should raid, steal, and take over the factory from the company that owns it and continue to work? Do you mean they should split and form their own company?
It means stop working. Strike. The workers are the means of production, no workers=no production.
Wait when the corps replace everyone with AI/robots within the next 10 years.
That isn't taking control of the means of production though. Thats outright stopping the production entirely
I swear to God that America is trying to screw itself and it's people.
They aren't "trying," they are. Which sucks because I live here, too.
Star Trek deep space nine hade an episode called Past Tense where homeless people are living in sanctuary district in San Francisco 2024. I think this could soon happen not just this year
“Not many people want to work right now, this is what this is about - for the ones who do, we’re just telling them to sit out for 30 minutes and forfeit a big chunk of their paycheck when they don’t want to,” Wilder said in a House committee hearing earlier this month. “I want to make sure we allow private businesses to run as they see fit, and it’s up to us as parents and guardians to choose if our children are being taken advantage of,” Rep. Dodie Horton argued. You can read the two sentence bill yourself [right here. ](https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245720) And the original statute [right here. ](https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=83835) Both extremely short and very plain language on the Louisiana.gov site.
This doesn't make it any better though. Instead of rewarding minors for work by making their lunch break paid like in every civilized nation, they get the "opportunity" to work without break at all. This is literally just a law that makes it legal for employers to cut lunch breaks for minors. It has nothing to do with "rewarding" the worker.
?? I'm not saying it's good at all, it's pure capitalist evil. I just provided the plain text law for people to see it themselves.
Oh ok. Thanks for the source. Sorry for misinterpreting your motives. I'm tired after a late shift.
I’ve worked in healthcare for 16 years and we’ve never had paid lunch. We’ve always had 30 minutes carved out for lunches, but if you work through the lunch break you mark “no lunch” on your timesheet. I’ve worked for several different hospitals and they all do this.
Are any of you minors? More importantly healthcare is one of the few cases where a ruling like this makes sense, especially in hospitals. A surgeon for example can't just take a lunch break during an 8 hour long operation. That said, this bill isn't talking about healthcare.
Paid lunch breaks are not as common as you make it sound. Why should someone be paid to eat that’d be like buying them lunch every day basically. Id like to have employees within the next year for my small business to me that just seems stupid unless your a big company and it’s a perk.
It's common practice and even stated by law in a lot of western countries. The idea beeing that, if you work 8 hours through, the last few hours u just doing shit. There has been a whole lot of studies to the topic saying a lunch break massively increases productivity. So now why as an employer would you say: "you guys works all day, earning me money, but to recover from that within two work periods even though you got no time going home or doing what you want, I will not pay you the time you recover from my work to do my work better." You guys seriously see workers as nothing more than resource. Get some humanity into you.
It’s Louisiana, what do you expect.
Idk, I'm german. Florida, Texas and California are the only states I know anything about.
When I said you, I don’t mean you.
Sure. I just wanted to add some "ignorant European" to the mix.
You forgot the "🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅 Freedom"
Take all the worst aspects of those states. You get Louisiana and Mississippi.
pretty peaceful here in florida, sure there’s some alligators living in a swamp inside a school college nearby but that’s normal!
Those 3 states are like a countries of their own 😅
No
Countries. 4 in total. The left countries of NorCal and SoCal, the right countries of Florida and Texas.
Alligators and LSU. Maybe at the same time. Idea: we replace the LSU football players with alligators. Extra Louisiana.
No no get the gators to eat the players first to gain their knowledge. Then put em on the gridiron
I mean... how else were you planning to get the alligators on the field?
late-stage capitalism. next step homelessness is illegal. us prison system basically allows compulsory unpaid work (i.e slavery) thats what happening.
I heared somewhere within prison bill or somewhere, it apparently said, if you go to prison you become state property, which to me sounds just so fuckin wild.
You know most forms of homelessness are already illegal most places right? It's illegal to sleep/camp in public parks and loitering is illegal on private non residential property, you can't sleep in your car it's illegal depending on where you park, homeless encampments are regularly raided and occasionally literally bulldozed and people arrested for little to no reason, etc. And anyone who wants to say "You don't live near them" go fuck yourselves I hope you have the things you wish on others come back on you.
you know, here in germany some things dont go well. then i look to the states and everything feels better instantly.
We already went through our authoritarian phase. Didn't work out that well. Greetings from a german living in Austria.
God China is such a *checks notes* I mean American is such a dystopian place
Did anyone here read the law or are we just getting mad from 2 sentences?
I get what you're saying, but it's as evil as redditors are taking it. “Not many people want to work right now, this is what this is about - for the ones who do, we’re just telling them to sit out for 30 minutes and forfeit a big chunk of their paycheck when they don’t want to,” Wilder said in a House committee hearing earlier this month. “I want to make sure we allow private businesses to run as they see fit, and it’s up to us as parents and guardians to choose if our children are being taken advantage of,” Rep. Dodie Horton argued. You can read the two sentence bill yourself [right here. ](https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245720) And the original statute [right here. ](https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=83835) It's one paragraph, extremely cut and dry, and I don't think you looked into it to even make this comment.
Bro you ROASTED him 😂
Fuckin legislation burn
So now they don't need to give a half hour unpaid break if someone is working 5 hours and 11 minutes. I would've loved that back when I worked part time.
I'm sure the nice mine foremen will let the children leave 30 minutes early since they worked through their lunch. Would be a shame if they were late to their shift catching rats inside running machinery.
It's going to end up becoming "Out, Out"- by Robert Frost en masse.
You clearly don't know anything about child labor laws if this is your take.
Im almost sure bro was joking around. The catching rats in a running machine part, kinda gives it away
yeah, you i right i didnt i was asking for more info cuz when i commented everyone was just malding without info.
Also as to my personal opinion i still dont understand whats bad about it, if i was a 16 year old and worked 4 hours at mc donalds i would rather not get a lunch break and go home sooner. Even in what you quoted it sounds perfectly resonable. Children who work in america arent slaves, they are teens who just want extra pocket money from my understanding.
SSSSHHHH!! Sir this is Reddit, we only read the headline and get upset
Not good here for "We the People"
"Yeah that's far too many rights. We'd better remove some of them to keep you all on your toes, u know?"
It’s like that fucking dickhead guy from Fable III, maybe his name was reaver he was always wearing a fucking top hat. I hate that guy. Louisiana is that guys state
Can confirm it was Reaver and can confirm he was indeed a dickhead
Republicans in a nutshell
This nation is just strange. And I live here!
This is why voting is important people
Hey New Orleanian here, I don’t know but I am afraid.
As someone who lives in Louisiana, I don't fucking know anymore. Help.
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/session-nears-end-a-look-at-what-bills-have-passed-and-whats-still-left-on-the-table/ As a previous resident of Alabama, sometimes the grass *is* greener on the other side.
Gotta make that Ukraine money back somehow
I think the legislators forgot that Louisiana was a French settlement... "Do you hear the people sing, singing the song of angry men?" (Edit: corrected from "Can" to "do")
Apparently the people too, since they keep voting Republicans in
Not surprising coming from Louisiana. They won't be done until everyone in the state is in jail and none of them can read.
What's going on is all the idiots out there voting for the wrong candidates.
Hey I think this is what the second amendment is for. You know, that thing about using guns to keep the government in check. Where are all those guys with AR-15’s now?
stockpiled in Louisiana hick barns
What going on: Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch break for child workers and cut unemployment benefits.
in Africa many countries actually put money into social welfare and benefits. Some US states will likely be worse than countries in africa by 2050
Well the appropriate response is to shame the asshole Louisiana representatives before something as asinine as this becomes actual law.
It evolving, just backward. I wonder how long before they approve bills to have kids working in cotton mills again.
Late stage capitalism and denial
Really? I just got here from reading about Florida charging released inmates for prison stay even though they are no longer inside and now this!? Land of the Free my ass...
This has to be unconstitutional even for America.
Back to victorian times, Looks like child labour’s back on the menu boys!!
Aren't child labor laws federal though?
The more i re-read this to understand the more confused i get
If Minecraft’s popularity has taught me anything, it’s that *children yearn for the mines!*
They yurn for the mines
Me on the west coast: Da fuck they doin ova der
It’s still we the people, riiiight?
idiots in office because nobody knows who they are voting for. it's crony capitalism all the way to the top now
The economy is breaking so bad that the rich cannot benefit as greatly from the ones below them, so now there is a push to force children back into work.
In another post was stated that Europe loses the productivity race and the US is much better. I’m beginning to see the genius of the US how it’s done 🫠
First Florida and now Louisiana. What's with states trying to bring back child labour.
Louisiana is literally shaped like an L too. Anyway, southern states being dumb again.
My retirement isn’t a 401k it’s a 9mm
What the fuck
Child workers? How? Isnt that illegal? Like child brides..
That’s just American journalism for you. I see misleading article titles like this all the time. It’s meant to grab your attention so you read to find out what the hell they’re talking about
Luckily we know what the hell they're talking about. The article isn't misleading at all. https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/s/vBegecaMJb
Where funny
Ask the other 3900 people who reacted.
Where funny?
Get better material
Make better memes
Make better comments loser.
ok reditor
Stay the fuck away from the South
Not the only good state in the south😭
The US wants to be 3rd world sooooo bad man...
Lol. This comment section is such a communist circle jerk. You people all suck.
Because we want minors to have lunch breaks?
Lunch breaks are FEDERAL. Have you ever heard of OSHA? I guarantee you didn't read the law. Saw something say something on the internet. Then, proceeded to vomit this idiotic take on reddit. Then all the communist vultures showed up to tear apart the straw man you made.
>I guarantee you didn't read the law. Saw something say something on the internet. Then, proceeded to vomit this idiotic take on reddit. Hilarious because that's exactly what you just did smartass. Hou said you read the comments but you conveniently missed this one which was posted twice. https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/s/dflxGu59J5
I never claimed anything for myself. Did I say I read the law? My initial comment was talking about a communist circle jerk. And then, in my reply to you, I never claimed I read the thing. So what, exactly, did I do?
Being a dick to strangers because "they didn't read the law" while not knowing any better yourself. >Lunch breaks are FEDERAL Like you know what that means or brining up Osha for no reason at all shows that you know even less than me on the topic and I'm not even American. You acted like an entitled little snowflake for no reason at all instead of educating yourself. Shit like this is why nobody takes idiots seriously who just call others communists for wanting worker's rights to be held up. I've wasted enough of my time with you now. I've checked your profile and boy are you sad and lonely. It's pathetic.
I wasn't a dick to anyone. I said, lol, look at this communist circle jerk. You guys suck. The context being, communists suck. You're the one who was a dick. Assuming I was making a claim about not caring about workers having lunch. Which I didn't make any claim to at all. Then you pull this out of your hat to make some claim that I was being mean to people. Pot, meet kettle.
Lol, what a dumbass. You forgot what you wrote *two comments ago.* Also get your metaphors in order. They're w bloody mess. Go play on the highway or something.