This is not a depiction of a village, this is what happens when the village no longer exists and everyone has to live in isolation from any social safety nets. Or to put it another way, Neoliberalism.
this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2025
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Yes, but think of the shareholder value.
Wow you're right. I'll have 2 neoliberalisms please. Gonna max out those shareholder values 💪
Would you like to add genocide to that with just a few purchases from platforms owned by literal white supremacists?
Nah, in a village you’d see kids at work with parents sometimes too. Usually you’d have some kind of daycare situation, but sometimes that’s not an option.
I can totally see a village shop where the owner is there with a baby, and the kid kinda grows up in the shop.
The difference is that they’d own the shop tho…
We aren't talking about rasing a kid in a literal village within a Neoliberal society. "It takes a village" is an idiom about how the entire community should help to properly raise a child.
The saying emphasizes that a child’s upbringing is a communal effort involving many different people and groups, from parents to teachers to neighbors and grandparents.
The whole idea underscores the belief that the collective involvement of a community is essential in achieving a certain goal or completing a task, like raising a kid.
Essentially, it’s a friendly reminder that asking for help with hard things is okay because many hands make light work.
That seemed to be in the past, at least the distant past, the way things worked.
A smith took his son to his "office." The kid watched. Then the kid got older, and curious. The father imparted his wisdom onto his child, and eventually, the son took over for his old man.
Hence, a family line in one business.
Or to look at another way, why people still carry the surname of Smith, Miller, Baker, etc.
She should be grateful! The protocol is to let her and her child starve, for the crime of contributing more humans to society.
That's what you get for not being a Libertarian sociopath!
Oh, and we need to get the birth rate up!
Solution? Have the kid working there too. The children yearn for the fries.
While I'm certain the restaurant's health standards are lax enough to permit it, children are peerless disease vectors. If a child is working there, you're gambling with your health.
The children. Yearn. For the Fries.
As a former child, I agree.
This is so fucking depressing.
You don't understand. The baby needs to pull her mom up by her bootstraps.
Lazy ass baby
Fuck you Mcdonalds, pay a living wage. There’s always money in the CEO budget.
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iT tAkEs A ViLlAgE
so where is the village? wtf
I feel like the person is failing to see beyond the scope of immediate surroundings. They're seeing the manager as the village in this case. The manager being about as good as they're in a position to be (because let's face it, a McDonald's shift manager isn't exactly the 1% and has only probably been there a few months longer and can't tell them to just go home and they'll get paid regardless) looks a lot like "support" if you don't look around for the missing friends, family, community daycares, social programs or charities.
An actual community would see you being supported to be with your child when they weren't being otherwise cared for. Like a year of parental leave from the government, guaranteed job to come back to, and daycare for when you get back.
If it never occurred to you to look for those things, the closest person in authority you can see not being as bad as they could be can look an awful lot like a favor.
I actually would give the manager as much cred as possible here. They're probably two years older than she is, what the hell can they do besides let her work and keep their head down about it? Within their scope, they really are trying to help.
Everyone else has failed this child.
Oh, 100%. I had hoped to make it clear that the manager is just another person without any actual power. The only power they have is to not send them home and have them work the register instead of the fryer. That maybe the lowest tier power possible granting the largest yet meager favor they can stands out is, as you said, everyone else failing them.
Totes, I meant that as agreement and elaboration on what you were saying.
Maybe if we paid people living wages they could actually afford childcare. Shit is expensive.
The implication is she was how old when she got pregnant? Yikes. Can we talk about the $.00 Chocolate chip cookie
Combo pricing thing
Childhood Memories Unlocked.
When I was in China, my mother had to find my grandmother (her mother) to babysit me when she was doing migrant work in GuangZhou (she did not have a HuKou in GuangZhou, so its basically a second-class citizen). So I'm assuming my grandmother weren't available for some reason, so my mother took me to her work. It was some sales job that was mostly commission based, the actuall monthly income was low. And also, unlike in the west, the pay was monthly, not bi-weekly or weekly. And forget about unions, they don't exist.
And not the mention, the fine she had to pay for violating the One Child Policy (I was the second child)
Very tangential, but isn't the biweekly to weekly pay and american thing? My western country pays monthly too.
What are these comments? This isn't good at all.
That kid not being in daycare is costing the economy probably 1k a month in child care fees. Not to mention the worker is probably being less efficient.
Imagine if you worked really hard to open some McDonald's branches and the workers all started to bring their kids in. Workers these days have no sense of respect.
Yes, will someone please think of the shareholders?
You're in Orphan Crushing Machine. The sarcasm here is thick! Don't sweat it, this is a place for dark humor while we cope with the disaster that is our world.
The sarcasm here is thick!
It's thickest in the comment above yours 😅
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Well look, if Musk can do it, it must be good, right?
This village needs to be sacked and burned to the fucking ground.
I'm pretty sure this is rage bait. What fucking McDonald's worker wears a hi-vis vest?
One that has to bring pickup orders out to people waiting in vehicles.. while also carrying a child.
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