He did have to, his mother needed transportation and he saw this as the only means of providing it. You know what used to be a common value? Society providing for its members so that their children don't have to do things like this. Life is hard, but we can try and make it easier for people.
I'd think he was forced to because if his mother couldn't drive and couldn't work because of it, he would starve, not to say he didn't do it for good reasons but don't make this out to be a situation where he could idly by and let someone else help him
So now that I've thought about how sad this situation is, what's the solution? Or is just pointing something out that's obvious considered mission accomplished.
The solution is to support more robust social safety nets so that such sacrifices on the part of children is unnecessary. Also donating to the GoFundMe.
Statistically this child most likely won't leave this income level for his entire life, so I guess it's good that he's learning early that the system won't provide or care for him in any way, shape or form?
Lol what a sheltered, first-world take.
Good to finally have people admit that the US is a 3rd world country.
Seriously? That's what you are going to reply with? Get out of here with that disingenuous bullshit.
I mean at least children in my country don't have to suffer like this so I guess I do live in a first-world country.
People here seem to have hard time empathizing with the mom. Imagine you are a single parent with three kids and can't even afford a car for work and you 13 years old has to help. Is this fair to you? No, it isn't.
Lol at suffer. How is selling your Xbox and doing yard work called suffering?
I can already see one trajectory for his life, forced by economic circumstance to work at a young age, he will have to continue working through school, losing opportunities to study and won't be able to pay for college, dooming him to the same dead end jobs that will keep him locked in this perpetual cycle of poverty.
The fact that a 13 year old had to sell his most valuable possessions and work in order to provide his mother with a means of transportation suggests a pretty significant amount of struggle, yes.
2nd world country thank you very much. We aren't 3rd world filth like Mexico. /s
Because our taxes would be raised and we wouldn't get quarter of what you're advertising.
You're right, if he's lucky he'll have an opportunity that will drastically change his life but most likely that's what's gonna happen :/
Funny that 2nd world countries are never really defined..
What do you think was going to happen if the mother wasn't able to go to work because of the car that she was lacking exactly?
If his mother didnt have transportation than his family would very quickly not have any food on their table. It's like you didn't even give this situation more than a few seconds of thought.
Maybe if US didn't spend so much money in military, destroying poor countries and killing innocent brown people
I don't see how you can say this with any other lens than mistrusting the US government. (Which is quite understandable really).
Let me tell you now, if that woman didn't have a car and couldn't work as a result and that kid didn't work like a fucking dog for that car, I wouldn't be surprised if that's what they would be doing.
None of that has anything to do with the bullshit 'people are saying the government should provide cars' misdirect you did in your last post.
Are you taking the piss? Is there a level of suffering you have to go through before we can consider it 'struggling' then?
Where I live it might as well not exist.
