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The state’s legislature on Tuesday is set to debate a bill that would loosen child labor laws, allowing children as young as 14 years old to work overnight shifts.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/business/florida-child-labor-laws/index.html

Hear me out 

Compulsory education’s goal is to create a good worker

You do not need much education or any second order thinking skills to 

- follow a road sign 
- memorize a shitcoin ticker 
- read TikTok captions 
- work on an assembly line 
- send emails
- be swayed by an advertisement 

You do not need second order thinking for most jobs in our economy, and have not for my whole life I hazard

And our education system is no longer producing good workers. 1/3 of all zoomers jobless, or so I read. How many of them went to college, carry debt and have no prospects? The situation is untenable. We have vastly overproduced elite aspirants per Turchin

Especially with the AI age incipient why should the state pay for day care for teenagers. By 14 we will know who deserves the last knowledge jobs, they will be metered out by some combination of nepotism, family wealth and sheer brainpower. Laura Deming was admitted to MIT at 16  

Letting the kids work seems better than saddling them with debt and false hope

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Education should focus on developing critical thinking skills, not just on creating workers. Government funds could be better spent on technical/vocational training or apprenticeships