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This is still absolutely shit take.
We should be aiming for no one to have a grim job. Not kids nor adults that didn't 'work hard at school'. First, he's basically proposing torturing kids into studying harder which is simply stupid. Kids need time to rest. Sending them to work part time will just make studying harder for them. Second they are shifting the blame for poverty on people 'not working hard enough' while we know shit education system and lack of opportunities is the main reason people are stuck in grim jobs.
And he's basing all this on a case of a kid that wants to be a cook and works... as a cook. How is that 'grim job motivating him to work hard'? The kid apparently loves it. Can he find an example of a kid that worked in a shitty factory, hated it and got motivated to study hard and get out of poverty? I would love to see it and compare it with all the kids that had to work and abandoned education altogether. Want to bet which outcome is more common?