A 15-year-old plunged 50 feet to his death on his first day on the job at an Alabama roofing company, federal officials say.

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml · 10 months ago

A 15-year-old plunged 50 feet to his death on his first day on the job at an Alabama roofing company, federal officials say.

dhtseany@lemmy.ml · 10 months ago

WTF? Why the hell was a 15 year old working on a roof like that in the first place?

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml · 10 months ago

Because child labor is cheap and legal, welcome back to the Dickensian times.

zaph · 10 months ago

100k fine will definitely prevent this from happening again

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml · 10 months ago

and now we know what a human life is worth in Alabama

zaph · 10 months ago

I think what pisses me off the most about stuff like this is that they want to charge the mom for murder if she got an abortion but when her kid dies 15 years later he’s only worth a 100k fine.

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml · 10 months ago

That makes perfect sense actually. The whole point of anti abortion laws is to create cheap labor that can be brutally exploited. If your business relies on destitute kids to be exploited, then you want to force mothers to carry their pregnancies to term.