Guys, with all due respect, you can’t be serious…
This is not the same healthy concept of “startin 'em early,” or riding without seat belts or letting your teenage son have a sip of beer or whatever. Judging by the video, this is child labor for industry. It’s inhaling dust and gravel and probably many other toxic particles during one’s physiologically formative years. I reeeeally hope this kid isn’t doing this daily.
I’m all for the resurgence of respect for trade, aka the Mike Rowe thing, but aren’t we taking it a bit far when we see a six year old operate heavy equipment and we say “Yeah, workin with his hands! Good on him”?
Sure, one attitude is “this is why they get things done” but as for me, I’d rather not encourage the flood of shitty plastic landfill fodder that is what we call imported consumer goods, if it means encouraging kids to stay home from school and push gravel around. In fact, it’s a disservice to everything laborers fought for in the early part of last century.
And sorry to be a pest, but:
we were a more productive society during those generations
Ehhh…
Looks like our namby-pamby ways have treated us nicely, to be honest.