>>1834523There is no "labor shortage" "plaguing" the nation. There's low unemployment, which is good for workers and bad for capitalists. If the media has been catastrophizing to you about how nobody wants to work anymore, that's just bourgeois pear-clutching about having to pay higher wages because the surplus army of labor is smaller and the labor market is tighter. Children wouldn't get to freely choose whether to work because their parents ultimately control their lives, and would be the arbiters of whether their children got jobs or not. And that's not the only reason child labor would be bad for children. It would also give them less time to dedicate to leisure and to school. Children need childhoods, not to be turned into wageslaves the moment they're old enough to stand up. Do you want to extend the dip in this chart further left?
>draining of parents' savings>financial securityThe solution to this is the welfare state.
>expectation of assistanceconservative propaganda with no foundation in reality
>the population of the working age in the united states is not increasing to support the large number of adults living past the working age (ss benefits/programs)First of all, this is the same argument that Ben Shapiro uses to defend raising the retirement age. Secondly, if you're worried about the median age growing, the solution to that is immigration. Lots of young workers want to come into the country and work and pay taxes. If you want more workers and more taxes, just let them in.
This post is reactionary. And it's terribly formatted.