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Interestingly on a related note I just watched a documentary called "The Workers Cup" about laborers building the venues for the Qatar world cup and there were
by OldSchoolJohnny 8y ago
Interestingly on a related note I just watched a documentary called "The Workers Cup" about laborers building the venues for the Qatar world cup and there were many shots of the laborers manually shoveling rocks and gravel in places where you would typically see a machine doing it here in North America. Apparently, for them, it's cheaper to use cheap labor to hand dig rocks and dirt than to use a machine to do it.
- erikpukinskis 8y agoYes, if you can treat workers like machines (i.e. no “human rights”) they are actually more efficient per calorie/dollar than a rotary engine for many tasks. This is why slavery didn’t just die upon invention of the engine.
- harlanlewis 8y agoCitation provided (for the first claim): Qatar 2022 https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2016/03/qatar-world-cup-of-shame/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2016/03/qatar-wo... Russia 2018 https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/06/06/russia-world-cup-labor-abuses-stadium-building-sites https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/06/06/russia-world-cup-labor-a... Brazil 2014 https://www.aljazeera.com/humanrights/2014/07/world-cup-workers-struggle-basic-rights-2014738261599591.html https://www.aljazeera.com/humanrights/2014/07/world-cup-work... (a bit of a threadjack so I'll stop here)