The Senate voted on a bill allowing 14-year-olds to work six-hour night shifts, and passed it at 4:52 a.m.

The return of child labor is right up there with the loss of abortion rights in terms of shocking backslides but people don't seem to care as much about it.

    • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      RETRVN to 1890s politics has been the dream of the Bourgeoise for the last 100 years. Now, most reactionary, libertarian, etc. parties usually restrained themselves to Reaganism or a Hong-Kong kind of hellhole, but the United States are setting record low standards worldwide of what's considered acceptable.

      Maybe it'll lead to a revival of radical politics, or maybe the doomer in me is correct in thinking we are going to move ever closer to the ancaps' utopia (but with a state to beat up the uppity) with little pushback.

    • TheFreshestHell [he/him,any]
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      2 years ago

      Spot of hope? The first gilded age was succeeded by the progressive era, when we got speakeasies and revolutions and the birth of most modern welfare systems