Russia considers working age of 12 to solve wartime jobs crisis (www.telegraph.co.uk)
from harcesz@szmer.info to world@lemmy.world on 05 Jun 17:19
https://szmer.info/post/14429344

Children’s rights champion suggests reopening Soviet labour camps in summer holidays

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shweddy@lemmy.world on 05 Jun 17:48 next collapse

Why the kids gotta pick up the slack for the adults?

Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org on 05 Jun 18:37 next collapse

Because those adults are getting ground up in Ukraine and the warmachine needs to grind on.

Rothe@piefed.social on 05 Jun 20:42 next collapse

Everybody gotta pick up the slack of the dictator and his mistakes. That is how dictatorships works.

MrNesser@lemmy.world on 05 Jun 21:35 next collapse

Not a lot of adults left

gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org on 06 Jun 00:04 collapse

they killed 1.5 of their own young men in a pointless war

russia has 150 million inhabitants. that’s 1% of the entire population dead.

Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works on 06 Jun 04:48 collapse

Even the higher estimates put the toll at over a million casualties, not deaths. Even at a very pessimistic 50% casualty rate, that’s 750k dead.

Still a lot.

doo@sh.itjust.works on 06 Jun 06:18 collapse

And they are

  • relatively healthy (enough to be sent to die)
  • men
  • of working age

And given that those that are enough wounded to be discharged also can’t really work as before, we’re looking at something like 5-10% of the male workforce.

That’s a lot a lot.

Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works on 06 Jun 06:52 collapse

And that’s just the ones killed or injured, that doesn’t count the ones who’ve fled the country to avoid being drafted, which from what I’ve heard is something like three million.

Plus the ones still alive serving in Ukraine. It’s no wonder they have a labour shortage.

someguy3@lemmy.world on 05 Jun 17:49 next collapse

“almost all of them want to work in the summer”

Children yearn for the gulag.

LostWanderer@fedia.io on 05 Jun 18:15 next collapse

Ah, looks like the ill-advised War to take Ukraine is grinding too much of their workforce into either deserters or unnecessary casualties. Sane leaders would've long given up (or never started) a war that is so very worthless fight or continue. However, Putin will instead continue the fruitless war effort and try to get children to work, as they yearn for hard labor instead of playing ball or being carefree. I genuinely wonder if Russia has a future as a nation, given what Putin's sustained and incompetent leadership has doomed them towards inevitable collapse.

gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org on 06 Jun 00:06 collapse

i’m not sure whether it’s relevant in this context but i remember reading that it’s mostly the russian oligarchs who pushed for this war. putin, among all them, is the most cool-headed one

i’m not saying that to defend them or anything, but i think that the thought that “if we get rid of putin, things will improve” is a very ill-advised take.

LostWanderer@fedia.io on 06 Jun 00:22 collapse

I never said getting rid of Putin would change anything...The unique conditions that Russian citizens have lived under for years upon years, would enable anyone to replace Putin and be just as shit as him. If that person sucked a little less, and life improved a tiny bit. Nobody would care, it would be business as usual. I wouldn't be surprised that Russian Oligarchs might have had some influence, as the rich always benefit from a terrible war.

itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world on 05 Jun 18:27 next collapse

I’m sure parents will be thrilled to send their 12 year olds into the mines

betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world on 05 Jun 18:58 next collapse

Soon: Russian draft age lowered to 12, conscription notices to be mailed shortly.

DarkFuture@lemmy.world on 05 Jun 19:44 next collapse

Stop. You’re making American conservatives hard.

nymnympseudonym@piefed.social on 06 Jun 14:41 collapse

… and the libertarians are actively ejaculating

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gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org on 05 Jun 23:57 collapse

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She argued children should be allowed to take up part-time work in the summer holidays to earn “a little money”, insisting “it is no secret that we need to change federal labour legislation”.

Damn that reminds me of Merz saying “it’s no secret that we all need to work more” (by which he means, everyone except the rich should work more)

Although Vladimir Putin has boasted of historic low unemployment rates of 2 per cent, a constriction of available workers has made desperate employers raise wages in an effort to draw staff, increasing costs for consumers and squeezing profits for businesses.

what a crisis (/s)

Kirp123@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 02:38 collapse

That’s one way to solve unemployment, just kill all the unemployed.