Humiliating? You're a cog. Cogs don't get treated like people. Dangerous? See cog. And cheapest. If you're a business owner running any kind of business t

Humiliating? You're a cog. Cogs don't get treated like people. Dangerous? See cog. And cheapest. If you're a business owner running any kind of business that requires physical labor, then you've probably got five things in your favor automatically over your employees: money, a lawyer on retainer, experience dealing with litigation, a system that has been designed to favor you, and insurance. Most poorly paid employees don't know their legal rights and they don't really expect the system to work for them, either, so in the event that a serious injury occurs, they will usually just sit there and take it. If you drive in the cities of Harahan and Gretna near New Orleans, you will find billboards of maritime injury lawyers all over the place. Why? Because ships are huge business, working around them is extremely dangerous, they are insanely profitable, people get hurt working on them all the time, and employees don't know their rights because there's zero legal incentive to educate them past the bare minimum HR deems necessary.