• xyguy@startrek.website
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    113 Years after the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire and not enough has changed for the better.

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      This story and the Triangle Shirtwaist fire should be a reminder that almost every large business owner would kill you if it meant they could make slightly more money.

      How much extra value do you think they generated in a couple of hours of making plastic pipes? That’s what their lives were worth to the factory owners.

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      Can’t really expect change when all we vote for are capitalists. If we want our culture to change, we have to make different choices in the ballot box.

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        That’s part of it. Unions also made a difference for a while, until the propaganda machine convinced a bunch of people that Unions were bad. When in reality, Unions are a benefit to everyone, they protect workers from bad bosses, and historically they also protected bosses from getting the shit beat out of them by their employees.