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  Not just income-splitting purposes but also for the effective embezzlement of cash from the tax payer if you are a politician or doing government work.
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  My dad was a programmer so that would have been a bit difficult to help. Like what, am I supposed to do his code reviews for him? >
  
  The kid could be the rubber duck >
  
  Brilliant. Definitely worth the upgrade >
  
  It’s socially acceptable to have your children do work for your own business but not socially acceptable to have your children do work that someone else is employing you to do for them. >
  
  It is not socially acceptable to make your child do manual labor at the factory you own You're still running the business, but its typically frowned on in society, if you do something like this, but if I saw a kid on a farm, I wouldn't think as much of it, as I would, if I saw them in a factory, which is what the whole post is about. >
  
  I'd say that's pretty normal too.
  I did manual labour at my family's company as a kid.
  As did several other kids I knew.
  They weren't like conveyor belt mass production companies, but it sure wasn't a farm, and it was manual labour (among other things). >
  
  I remember be and my friend sorting out an enormous amount of checks for his dads business as a kid for 5 an hour. >
  
  This is tacit acknowledgement that offices are hellholes. A victorian child might get pulled into a copper loom and die, but they wouldn't risk going through two hours of annual review where all participants had to pretend any of it matters. >
  
  “This is tacit acknowledgement that offices are hellholes”
  Just because it’s illegal to keep alligators in your bathtub in Arkansas but not illegal to keep a camel there does not tacitly acknowledge that alligators are claustrophobic.
  You use really weird logic. >
  
  Not so. We think it inhumane to send a child down a mine, yet place a child on a beach and they will dig as naturally as badgers. 
  However, I have never yet seen a childish game where the infant makes a grid of stick, and places stones in each grid square for hours just so Angelyna in Records can complain the dates aren't formated the way she likes; even though the game refuses to let you ignore automatic date format without putting a bloody pinecone in the square first. >
  
  Every day we stray further from the Astronomican. >
  
  Or if you own your own business, I helped my mom with her business starting at 12 >
  
  Same, moms owned a tanning salon. Got paid more than my first real job. Did laundry, cleaned tanning beds, ate infinite papa John’s because the managers traded for free tanning, got to meet infinite tanning babes as a 10 y/o, and when we weren’t working we would scavenge the field behind the strip mall because there was a paintball store and there tons of intact paintballs in the field! Great times. >
  
  "Dammit Jimmy, I told you I needed those spreadsheets an hour ago. That's it young man, no xbox tonight." >
  
  My mom is a teacher and asks if I want to grade papers. I do not. >
  
  True; if you work in an office (your own), it is only acceptable to hire your children to fake positions for income-splitting purposes.