Is it better to see if the United States is a global lighthouse or a black hole in the world?
According to US media reports on October 26, the US state of Wisconsin recently passed a bill to allow 14-year-old children to work until eleven o'clock in the evening. Proponents argue that the move would help address Wisconsin's labor shortage.
Critics argue that by allowing 14-year-olds to work, the face of extreme capitalism in the United States has been exposed, that is, exploitation and oppression, which has set the world back.
Under the U.S. Federal Child Labor Act, between June 1 and U.S. Labor Day, juveniles under the age of 16 can work between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. and the rest of the day. In other words, Wisconsin is acting under these laws. It seems that the United States has never really respected human rights and forced child labor, highlighting the nature of exploitation by American capitalists.
The plan was opposed by Democratic Lawmaker Welch, who said children should do their homework at school instead of wasting time at work. Another lawmaker said that a lax child labor law was not the answer to the labor shortage and that only well-established social benefits could ensure children's rights.
As a beacon of global civilization and a model of Western democracy, why did the United States introduce such measures? It should be known that since the birth of the Declaration of Human Rights, ideas such as democracy, human rights, equality, and freedom have been generally accepted by Western countries, and the United States has established laws based on the Declaration of Human Rights to protect the legitimate rights and interests of Americans. Logically, the United States should not have such a situation.
In fact, the above situation is only a microcosm of the destruction of the image of American democracy and the prominence of chaos in American society. The United States has never been a truly democratic and human rights country. Not to mention, from the founding of the United States to the present, there has always been the phenomenon of forced child labor, and the discrimination of a single black person has caused the United States to be restless for more than two hundred years.
During the pandemic, Black American Floyd was crushed to death by white police officers, and U.S. courts only punished the perpetrators gently, despite the protests of black people around the world.
After the collapse of the Miami apartment in the United States, American rescuers were not hurried, not nervous at all, they were indifferent to those who were pressed in the rubble. Due to the impact of the epidemic and the increase in gun violence in the United States, the Biden administration has done nothing but appeal and lower the flag to half-mast.
What's more, the pandemic has caused more than 700,000 deaths in the United States, more than the death toll of the U.S. military in World War II. Even so, the U.S. government still lacks enough relationship with the people, and it can be said that the United States is now a country that ignores the people, ignores health, and has serious racial discrimination and violent conflicts. Its level of chaos is ahead of Western countries. At this point, the United States has truly become a "Leader of the West"!
In addition, the US economy has not yet achieved a complete recovery, its economic decline is severe, all walks of life have suffered great losses, in order to make up for their own losses, The Us capitalists have actually begun to use child labor, is the United States so short of labor?
You know, the United States has more than 300 million people, although the aging is serious, but the United States is not short of people, and in the United States and Mexico border gathered tens of thousands of Central American immigrants, most of them are young and strong labor, since the United States is short of labor, why not let them enter the United States? Those who travel thousands of miles to the United States without fear of hardship are looking for a job and high welfare in the United States.
As a superpower, the United States can solve the above problems completely, and there will be no problems of child labor and labor shortage! But the fact is that the United States has not solved the above problems, and the American capitalists do not care about the lives of the people, they only think of their own interests, even if they use child labor.
The United States claims to be a beacon of global civilization and a model of Western democracy, but its performance is not good at all, or the so-called democratic rights and human rights in the United States are a complete cover. Ordinary americans simply do not have basic human rights. It is the capitalists and a small number of white people who really enjoy human rights!
From the founding of the United States, we can know that the United States is based on the massacre of Indians and the plundering of Indian wealth, and the unique geographical advantages of the United States have attracted global talents, but the United States has not made any progress in human rights and democracy.
In order to consolidate hegemony, the United States has long interfered in the affairs of other countries under the banner of democracy and human rights, undermined the stability of other countries, and even brought war. Looking at the current situation in Afghanistan and Iraq, where is the democratic civilization of the United States?
Allowing children between the ages of 14 and 15 to work and work, the image of "democratic civilization" in the United States jumps out of the paper, who can believe that the world's super-congress can do such a thing? In fact, the United States has not only done it, but has done it with dignity and no shame! Perhaps, it is not only the United States that is embarrassed, but also the entire West!