

When they’re struggling to eat two meals a day and threatened with homelessness, they’ll work and job they’re given, no matter how awful.
You think the parents of yesteryear wanted to send their kids off to the workhouses, when they knew an education would be better for them, and safer than the workshops?
They didn’t have a choice, because that’s how their society was structured.
The USA is regressing in many small ways that taken together gave a big impact, it’s not crazy to think that they’re reaching a point where many families will be forced to have their kids work to make ends meet.
The kids aren’t privileged, they don’t have a choice, that’s the point. If they choose not to work because they’re moody teens, then they’ll starve. That won’t happen.
Why has the comic author been cut out of the image?
Why didn’t OP link to their work at the very least, given that?