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I guess there aren't enough Americans who are willing to do soul-crushing unskilled labour for minimum wage.
by titanomachy 10y ago
I guess there aren't enough Americans who are willing to do soul-crushing unskilled labour for minimum wage.
- WalterSear 10y agoSlaughterhouse jobs correlate with increases in PTSD, domestic violence and violent crime. "Contracting out" the cognitive dissonance of causing suffering and misery has consequences to all involved. https://www.google.com/search?q=slaughterhouse+workers+domestic+violence&oq=slaughterhouse+domes&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l2.6644j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=slaughterhouse+workers+domes...
- jonah 10y agoAnd RSI. In the chicken processing plants near where I grew up, the workers were expendable. You're worked hard until you get injured and then discarded/fired/pushed out and replaced.
- h4nkoslo 10y agoThe "minimum wage" aspect is an artifact of the imported labor (and mostly the "soul crushing"; you can lower labor costs by cutting wages, or working conditions). There is a reason they decided to be called the Green Bay Packers, and it's not because the jobs were associated with poverty & soul-crushing.