posted on Feb, 4 2022 @ 11:56 AM
Ages ago, parents used their children as resources. Worked them from dawn to dusk. Milk the cows, toss the hay, slop the pigs. If the parents owned a
saloon, the kids cleaned out the spittoons and cleaned up the barf in the corner.
Parents have been using child labor for ages so what's the problem here, the massive amounts of money made? Ha, Consumers have been suckered into
footing the bill for this atrocity so blame them. The kid, what's his name, Ryan?, has parents that are multimillionaires because he is so cute and
they had the capacity to exploit it. It's the American way.
Let me ask, what is the difference between this and all those parents over the years that pushed and poked and prodded their children into the
Mouseketeers and other ''children shows''? Or how about those family singing groups like the Osmans and the Jacksons? How about that old vaudville
troop, ''Red NIchols and the Five Pennies'' trooping from stage to stage town to town day after day after day? Uoo uoo, another good one is all those
little girls who have been and still are, painted and frilled and made to ''strut'' their stuff in beauty pageants dressed up like Vegas showgirls.
And now that it's Olympics time, how about all those children who were pressured and trained and controlled by their parents to practice and practice
and practice all the time so that some day they could go to the Olympics and get those lucrative adverting promos?
This stuff has been going on for ages and where are we now? All the pissing and moaning over the years? We are right were we are, with this kid being
the focus of the family income stream. And what an income stream it is.
Yeah yeah, I know, it's just Terry, trolling another thread. Fine. But unless we want to dig into the entire question of what drivel we allow to make
huge swaths of cash in this society, parents, managers and CEOs will do exactly what we allow them to do by buying their products and being charmed by
their cute children and it will go on and on.
Again, my question is, what makes this so different.