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Teacher Asks What First Graders Want To Be Once Child Labor Laws Repealed (theonion.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by ZeroCool@lemmy.ca to c/theonion@midwest.social

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[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 40 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

just wait until it's "totally legal" for corporations to "adopt" orphans

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Dude don't give them ideas.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 weeks ago

I'll believe a corporation is a person when Texas ~~kills one through lethal injection~~ lets one adopt a child.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They are people....

[–] ProfAel@feddit.org 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The orphans?

[–] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Nah, not them...

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago

Pretty sure this is what happened in Oliver Twist

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 4 points 2 weeks ago

Adopt Orphans?

Your contract states that anything you create while employed at [COMPANY NAME] is the sole property of [COMPANY NAME], you're lucky you're allowed a generous 0.25% caretaker stipend for the child that's been a complete leech on resources for the last 9 months...