YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago‘I can’t believe we’re having this conversation’: the states pushing for 14-year-olds to serve alcoholwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square185fedilinkarrow-up1999arrow-down123
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minus-squareNuPNuA@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down4·2 years agoI think the practical application of actually having money in your pocket and having to manage it is better than anything we can teach theoretically. I’m not saying have them doing 40 hour weeks, but a few hours of a weekend won’t hurt them.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agoUnless those few hours of a weekend are serving drunk men as a teenage girl, you mean. Then there’s a huge amount of potential for hurt.
minus-squareNuPNuA@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·2 years agoYeah, I said in my very first post they probably shouldn’t be working in bars. My disagreement was that they shouldn’t be working at all.
I think the practical application of actually having money in your pocket and having to manage it is better than anything we can teach theoretically. I’m not saying have them doing 40 hour weeks, but a few hours of a weekend won’t hurt them.
Unless those few hours of a weekend are serving drunk men as a teenage girl, you mean. Then there’s a huge amount of potential for hurt.
Yeah, I said in my very first post they probably shouldn’t be working in bars. My disagreement was that they shouldn’t be working at all.