Ain't that the truth....used to be kids picked berries, beans and other crops during the summer...no can do much anymore...or they mowed lawns....oops, too dangerous, or people are afraid because they aren't paying the FICA, etc to the little wage earner. Government is the problem!
And here is another —where I live in the USA we have MANY Asian food restaurants. Not always but often a feature in the restaurant is the presence of the young kids of the workers or owners:
Quite often the kids perform tiny task in the eatery —returning change to a customer, or bringing silverware.
It seems not so much labor as TEACHING —the working parents are teaching their charges about a WORKING ROLE, and something about commerce. They’re teaching about the role between action and consequence, solicitation and payment, very key lessons in life.
And you know what? Almost all customers see this and warmly APPROVE.
Hey, why is it that it’s always HONKY KIDS that get the cops called on their cute Lemonade stand..?
It’s like there’s this huge double-standard —budding non-white tiny entrepreneur is endearing and welcome, but if the uppity tyke is pigment challenged, well then the squad cards, clip-boards and hard questions start buzzing around nattering on about licences and regulations, giving them the passive-aggressive Nurse Wratchet treatment:
— >STOP BUSTING LEMONADE STANDS. <—
The kids are rotten, yup, but you know what?
The system they’re thrown into right now is really rotten, also.