Comments by "michael" (@michaeld4861) on "Adam Conover" channel.

  1. It's even better than slavery from a corporate point of view. You hire a child as basically an indentured servant. They have no choice but to work and you don't have to provide them with enough to survive and are not responsible if anything happens to them. And if something does happen to them there's a steady stream of replacements. And if you are really good you hire them to work at the Hershey factory and only pay them in Hershey-Bucks (instead of dollars) which are only redeemable at the Hershey workers store, of course owned by Hershey. And if you don't want to pay them at all well that's fine too cause they are kids and have no rights or resources to fight back. There was a case a few months ago where McDonalds was found "employing" 12 year olds to work overnight shifts and literally didn't even pay them. Of course the fine was less than $1,000/child.
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  2. The Department of Labor is a joke. Should be called the Department of Indentured Servitude at this point. And even if they wanted to do better they have no legal teeth to do so.
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  3. Adam doesn't ruin anything, he just explains why billionaires have.
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  4. If you could send some lumber, iron ore and schematics that even a monkey could follow that would be much appreciated.
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  5. I hope this new FTC is better, they need to get their guillotines out and start dicing some carrots, we're getting hungry and desperate here.
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  6. I bet Elon Musk studied this guy to craft his own overly-marketed persona and his whole "I don't own a home and I'm just like you except the most smartest richest person in history" nonsense.
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  7. The problem with finding the correct size online the first time is that they either A) don't tell you what sizes things are other than a nebulous medium, large, etc or B) they have some sizing chart that is so purposefully obtuse that you need to be the person who made it to figure it out. Ah, this shirts chest size is two umbilical cords of the slave who sewed it while having a baby multiplied by 0.25 times the height of one of these thingsā›©, and I hope you remember matrices cause we are going to use those next.
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  8. "His babysitter, little-balls Elon" šŸ¤£šŸ¤£spot on
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  9. This might be the best video I've ever seen.
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