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explicitly made aware of.
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* The traditional strategy also makes it difficult for us to reason about the fact that people often inhabit multiple different sandboxes simultaneously, each
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with its own required curriculum and graduation date because we refuse to even acknowledge the existence of the sandbox to begin with.
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** However, the law often has to refer very directly to these overlapping sandbox periods.
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** Yet because they are never articulated clearly in culture or in law, the law doesn't have the vocabulary to speak clearly about them, and usually fails to
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properly create the desired outcomes since neither the entire culture and the law itself are all avoiding talking about these sandboxes.
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** Often, because we fail to recognize the existence of sandboxes, we fail furthermore to recognize that many times we may be unknowingly speaking (in legislation)
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about several overlapping yet distinct sandboxes at the same time, and this causes us to legislate hastily and disastrously by introducing rules that affect
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unintended secondary sandboxes in unintentional ways.
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* However, the law often has to refer very directly to these overlapping sandbox periods.
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* Yet because they are never articulated clearly in culture or in law, the law doesn't have the vocabulary to speak clearly about them, and usually fails to
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properly create the desired outcomes since neither the entire culture and the law itself are all avoiding talking about these sandboxes.
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* Often, because we fail to recognize the existence of sandboxes, we fail furthermore to recognize that many times we may be unknowingly speaking (in legislation)
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about several overlapping yet distinct sandboxes at the same time, and this causes us to legislate hastily and disastrously by introducing rules that affect
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unintended secondary sandboxes in unintentional ways.
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Wellspring has chosen to introduce an explicit framework for thinking about these overlapping sandboxes inhabited by protected classes of individuals.
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* An understanding of sexuality and the long term personal and psychological consequences of sexual decisions. Hitherto, cultures have often encapsulated this
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in the "legal age of consent".
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* A mastery of economic principles and an understanding of one's own economic interests; and skill in the art of negotiation.
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** Most cultures have expressed the protections required for the development of these skills in the form of labour laws; especially in the form of the minimum
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wage law.
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** The class of jobs known as "unskilled labour" or "minimum wage jobs" is intended to be a sandbox environment within which young workers learn the principles of
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business, finance, continuous career and skill development, and negotiation. Hitherto, because it wasn't made known explicitly to these young individuals that
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these jobs are intended to be a sandbox from which they will graduate, they tend to cling to the sandbox protections of minimum wages and other similar laws,
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beyond their expected graduation date.
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** Notice how this "sandbox" reasoning framework provides a strong case for laws prohibiting child labour.
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** We recognize that acknowledging this opens the door for arguments in favour of an age-gated miminum wage policy for example -- that is, that minimum wage laws
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would not be universal but rather they would be based on the age of the employee, with an eventual cutoff to zero when the employee passes a certain age. We
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don't take any specific policy position other than to assert that once an individual passes the legislatively defined sandbox period for the acquisition of
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these competences, all such special treatment laws should cease to have any effect on that person's contracts.
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* Most cultures have expressed the protections required for the development of these skills in the form of labour laws; especially in the form of the minimum
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wage law.
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* The class of jobs known as "unskilled labour" or "minimum wage jobs" is intended to be a sandbox environment within which young workers learn the principles of
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business, finance, continuous career and skill development, and negotiation. Hitherto, because it wasn't made known explicitly to these young individuals that
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these jobs are intended to be a sandbox from which they will graduate, they tend to cling to the sandbox protections of minimum wages and other similar laws,
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beyond their expected graduation date.
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* Notice how this "sandbox" reasoning framework provides a strong case for laws prohibiting child labour.
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* We recognize that acknowledging this opens the door for arguments in favour of an age-gated miminum wage policy for example -- that is, that minimum wage laws
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would not be universal but rather they would be based on the age of the employee, with an eventual cutoff to zero when the employee passes a certain age. We
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don't take any specific policy position other than to assert that once an individual passes the legislatively defined sandbox period for the acquisition of
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these competences, all such special treatment laws should cease to have any effect on that person's contracts.
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* An understanding of long-term consequences and the basic structure of various common contracts. Hitherto this has tended to be encapsulated in law as the age
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of sui juris.
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* An understanding of their level of talent in the various available professions, and a clear comprehension of which skills are their strengths, and therefore
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