>>13790> It 100% is not, definitively so. Even school is better than a shit job.If you think school is better than a shit job, I have a bridge to sell you. Schooling is only good for teaching technical skills. By itself, schooling is no less enslavement than work.
In fact, I would argue that school has less freedom than work.
Schools don't allow kids to go off campus for lunch breaks.
They don't allow dating.
They don't allow covered canteens.
They do random drug testing.
Bullying goes unpunished.
The only reason why people think school is better than work is because of pop culture promoting school as a juvenile social club.
> Because absent that child workers get slaved to market forces. Man, you need to read up on historical child labor. In fact, Capital Vol. 1 has a chapter on it if I remember right.If anything, abusive child labor is because of institutionalization of children, not the abscence of it.
> That average is deceiving. If you actually visit a fast food joint, you see teenagers alright but also a bunch of thirty and forty-somethings. Fast food is not only a first-and completely useless-job for teenagers; it is also the last stop for old proles who have either been to prison or who are trapped in suburban shitholes with no prospects.The amount of teens working fast food work has been declining since the 2000s.
Especially since schools are promoting more extracurricular activities.
> Popular opinion doesn't enter into it. People don't do trades, because they require apprenticeships. Usually trade apprenticeships are just doing all the shit work that the master does not want to do for years, which winds up meaning that most apprentices drop out as their patience wears thin at being taken advantage of. Also, masters like to delay the actual training for as long as possible not only to keep getting undesirable work done for them for cheap but also to avoid putting too many potential competitors into the market.Fair point. However, trades are still essential and are now being neglected. Most people are being sent off to college without much personal thought.
Colleges also seem to wanna drag on stud
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