Quote:
"'You see, it's not only important to keep these fourteen-to-eighteen-year-olds off the job market, it's also essentials to keep them at home as non-wage-earning consumers.'" Page 60 (on Charlotte's pdf)
Response:
I think this is totally true. This quote really made sense to me because I am one of those consumers. I didn't think about myself in this way, as a non-wag-earning consumer, but it makes sense. Teens are estimated to spend two hundred billion dollars a year. And this being a majority of our parents' money. I thought it was also interesting how it tied into how schools are just to basically hang out until you're old enough to go into the workforce, but our standards. Made me think.....
I liked how you made yourself as an example. I also agree that school is just our place to hang out with our friends until we start working. But if we actually think student actually work during the school year and still attend their classes. it actually suprised my with the fact that we spend at least two hundred billion dollars.
ReplyDeleteWhat did it make you think about? You leave us hanging at the end.
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