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    • Hang on, Hotroddy has kids?fadein11
    • To me as a parent of 2 sons, this is exciting albeit illegal. I have a 13 year old nephew who refused to work and get anything he wants between his mom / dad...ideaist
    • ...NOW divorced.

      I worked summers in the fields here in Ontario, ON a touch older than this.      ideaist
    • lol @ f11!formed
    • ^^^MrT
    • Dayuuummaquito
    • @ideaist lol...you too? lol.. thought it was just me. I grew up in Peterborough, out in the country, spent my childhood working on a local farm. Think i was 9..exador1
    • started when i was in about grade 4, so probably 9 years old... most of the kids in my area did that starting at the same age...exador1
    • it was something to do, and you got a few bucks etc...at that age it seemed like a gold-mine lol... pretty hard labour for a 9 yr old, but we did it anyway...exador1
    • one of those ai things:
      Q: What do you call a group of young kids working at McDonalds?
      A: A Happy Meal of Small Fries!      Squiddy
    • the dif bw US and Canada is children of all classes work in Canada (at least during summer). Very rarely do families have a 'cleaning lady'.hotroddy
    • Canada was not the two-class system that US is/was afforded by slave labor (historically) and now w cheap immigrant laborhotroddy
    • I think the work ethos of Canadians is why their socialist programs are able to work for the most part.hotroddy
    • So you’re saying slavery — racism — is to blame for how awful American economy is. ;) finallymonospaced
    • hotroddy throwing out the systemic racism that pervades American society even today. welcome to the left, bitchmonospaced
    • not sure the Canadian economy is any better off than the American. The American is stronger dollar. I think the job market is better in the US.hotroddy
    • *has a stronger dollar.hotroddy
    • if you want to race-bait the 'minority-soon-to-be... by correcting historical wrong-doings then I suggest you read up on Latin American socialismhotroddy
    • *corrupt regimesfadein11
    • The culture perpetuates corruption. Bureaucrats use the justification of rectifying past injustices to rationalize their corrupt actions.hotroddy
    • And USA currently has one foot in the tropics. Soon to be two feet.hotroddy
    • Look no further to BLM movement. 100 million in free money. Who did they actually help?hotroddy
    • I grew up in the restaurant business. I was washing dishes as soon as I could reach the machineGnash
    • Retail for me. First full day shifts on weekends or holidays either in warehouse or at cash register at age 11. Paid for a truly enormous CD collection!BuddhaHat
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