rant · moment 12 of 18
Kids Need Jobs: The Case for Child Labor Again
from Dead-Eyed Monsters | The Tim Dillon Show #375 · #375
8 min
Tim argues that eliminating child labor and the value placed on college was a mistake, insisting teenagers should be working at movie theaters or factories instead of having endless free time to cause trouble, with riffs on absent hedge-fund and Arizona parents.
- Modern children have no value system and only think drugs, violence, and money are cool.
- Schools should function like jails and children should be treated as criminals and a threat to society.
- Tim argues that no child in America has a job anymore, unlike when he worked as a kid.
- Children used to work at movie theaters and fairs, but now they sit in mansions doing fentanyl and waving guns on TikTok.
- Society overcorrected after abolishing workhouses—now kids have everything and are completely lazy.
- Tim describes getting his first jobs as a child working with his mother the lifeguard and in a no-coffee restaurant.
- Children should get working papers at 14 or 15 and have actual jobs.
- The anti-work movement is being pushed by people who want to destroy society.
- Suburban kids have no bosses and no responsibility because their parents are checked out chasing money and status.
- Wealthy hedge fund managers in New York abandon their autistic children while they ski in Aspen, leaving them addicted to the internet.
- Removing children from factories was a mistake—they'd be better off working in manufacturing instead of taking on college debt.
- The biggest losers Tim knows are buried in $200,000 student loan debt with nothing to show for it.
- Children have too much free time to kill and their parents don't care if they're committing murders.
- Modern parents give their kids ridiculous fake names instead of Bible names and won't make them work in factories.
- Making kids work in factories is a good happy medium between complete abandonment and idleness.