RE: Pill boy smirks at Congressional hearing.
February 5, 2016 at 4:42 pm
(This post was last modified: February 5, 2016 at 4:57 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Meh, that's taking it a bit far. Not having the money to pay the man to ride the donkey is -alot- better than being owned by the man, and -being- the donkey. Though, admittedly, it can get difficult to tell which situation a person is in sometimes.
Calling the wage gap "no better than slavery" shits on anyone who's ever been a slave. Pretty sure that plenty of liberated slaves preferred their menial jobs to their status as property. Don't get me wrong, if big business had their way they wouldn't even be doling out menial jobs. Slavery is a fucking wet dream for the pursuit of profit. Big Sugar was the originator, the ancestral model for all subsequent international big biz...........and we know how they felt about slavery. They're marginally better today, after 400 years of "ethical progress"...in that they now pay a wage...but they still just dump illegals and migrants on the curb of a hospital, if they even help at all.. when they get snakebit. Bit like dropping off a mangy stray at a shelter in the middle of the night to avoid paying any fee or filling out paperwork. No, wait, not a bit like that, that's -exactly- what they're doing.
Bonus, you rarely have to pay them that last weeks wage..they get deported before they can complain.
Thankfully, beet farmers have taken this market away from the old guard (cane ranches)...and the conditions they offer are marginally better still..most through no effort of their own, mind you, but at least they can claim it.
Calling the wage gap "no better than slavery" shits on anyone who's ever been a slave. Pretty sure that plenty of liberated slaves preferred their menial jobs to their status as property. Don't get me wrong, if big business had their way they wouldn't even be doling out menial jobs. Slavery is a fucking wet dream for the pursuit of profit. Big Sugar was the originator, the ancestral model for all subsequent international big biz...........and we know how they felt about slavery. They're marginally better today, after 400 years of "ethical progress"...in that they now pay a wage...but they still just dump illegals and migrants on the curb of a hospital, if they even help at all.. when they get snakebit. Bit like dropping off a mangy stray at a shelter in the middle of the night to avoid paying any fee or filling out paperwork. No, wait, not a bit like that, that's -exactly- what they're doing.
Bonus, you rarely have to pay them that last weeks wage..they get deported before they can complain.
Thankfully, beet farmers have taken this market away from the old guard (cane ranches)...and the conditions they offer are marginally better still..most through no effort of their own, mind you, but at least they can claim it.
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