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Sorry I’m late to respond.

> But by that logic we should let a 20 year old kid start as asbestos mine with hand tools next to a drinking water source, or let them operate heavy machinery on a highway with no training of any kind.

This is a dramatically exaggerated equivalency and you know it. Comparing someone operating lawn equipment to driving heavy equipment without training or mining biohazards next to a waterway would be humorous if you intended it a joke.

> “More jobs" should absolutely NOT be the goal, and anyone that says it is clearly hasn't thought to hard about it.

Oh come on, this is so far from established societal norms that it’s a fringe statement as it is.

It’s a fact of life that someone’s going to need to mow lawns. The externalities are so minor that it makes those in opposite appear borderline petty, but certainly not based.