this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2024
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A Boring Dystopia
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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.