It is sadly not a satire article and comment section there has taken it quite seriously as well.

I would have posted an archive.org snapshot instead but the latter refuses to crawl the site due to pay wall restrictions.

  • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
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    Yeah… This is definitely the writing of someone who definitely didn’t have to work as a child.

    From ages 13-16 I had to work in my uncle’s machine shop every summer threading bolts for the local GM plant. I didn’t learn anything other than my family is filled with cheap assholes, and now the smell of vegetable coolant makes me sick to my stomach.

    Btw if anyone has ever driven around in an early 00s Yukon, there’s a good chance that it was put together with bolts fabricated by a 13 year old.

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      Btw if anyone has ever driven around in an early 00s Yukon, there’s a good chance that it was put together with bolts fabricated by a 13 year old.

      Boeing has entered the chat

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        Tbh it wouldn’t surprise me, the part of ohio that some of my family lives in is filled with a bunch of mom and pop machine shops with contracts from surprisingly large companies.

        I guess it’s easy to grab the lowest bid when you’re powered by the free labour of all the children in your extended family.