Even then, many older people in the US will call someone 18-20 "kids", even though they're technically adults.
As a US English speaker I took it to mean "a bunch of young and immature people, probably on their first job" when I heard "most people are just kids", not that they're literally hiring 12 year olds or something.
Also, it looks like you're right for at least the states I normally deal with. Looking back the first job I had started when I was still 15, I must have just blended those shift schedule restrictions during the rest of my time working as 16-17 as well. So yeah, I guess that's probably true.
In my head I felt like my peers in college were "kids". I didn't feel like we were "adults" until we were in our mid-20s.
Why WOULDN'T youtube use child labor if it's cheaper?
I take it you're also arguing Y Combinator also uses child labor? Mozilla? Spotify? Your employer? I mean, why WOULDN'T they?
I imagine you probably probably hire child labor as well. After all, why WOULDN'T you?
Its probably child labor that keeps this site running. After all, why WOULDN'T they hire kids to keep this site up?
Or maybe there are reasons why people avoid child labor in many places.
Violating labor laws with children is actually really common, and plenty of places DO abuse young labor. It is NOT avoided
Do you think all the workers in your company's call center in some random country are all truthfully 18? Hell, do you think none of them are working against their will?
I made the parent comment exactly for this discussion. Do not assume corporations have a moral compass. They do not care and will outsource each and everything if that is cheaper than handling stuff themselves.Why is it chaeaper to pay some people to get the law on your side than actually start doing normal human moral behaviour? Why can they actually outsource responsibility at all? Strange planet we live on.
