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From the Bourdain video about Singapore having slaves (maids)

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[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 76 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Oh really? When your choices are either being in squalor or being a slave servant, people chose the later? WOW!

Insert Stalin quote here

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 45 points 11 months ago

Love to pat myself on the back for not chaining people to a post back home while I'm living a permanent leisure existence.

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 30 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's really hard to feed scraps to so many servants that do shitton of labor for me, being a job creator ain't easy!

But wait, what if I didn't even have to be responsible of feeding and clothing my slaves? cap-think

[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 71 points 11 months ago

It's like if your boss ordered you to come along and work on a trip to space or hell even on a mega-yacht or something. You'd jump at that chance.

I love when people with pathetic politics assume everyone else is as housebroken and simpering as they are

[-] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 52 points 11 months ago

Love to be trapped in a metal tube in the vacuum of space with my boss

[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 45 points 11 months ago

"if your boss ordered you to get into a suicide submarine you knew to be poorly constructed, you'd jump at that chance"

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 32 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I dunno, it'd probably be easier to fedposting your boss off a megayacht in international waters rather than in the office

[-] Weedian@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months ago

Give em the old Robert maxwell treatment

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"My boss wants me to go with him on his Titanic submarine holiday."

Also, in my experience, people are pretty evenly split on whether or not they want to travel for work, even if the destination is fun. A lot of people have child care commitments or would otherwise just rather stick to their schedule.

And this is for salaried professionals who would be getting their own accommodation and expenses paid. I've seen people turn down business class flights and 5 star hotels on the company dime.

[-] Justice@lemmygrad.ml 67 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I feel like if you know more than zero people with "servants" you should be constantly striving to make it zero.

It's kind of fascinating but not surprising that people who have these "servants" justify it the same way old time US slavers did. As if the master is a father figure doing something nice for his little children.

It's a delusional logic that I think many actually believe. They create (or at least perpetuate) the conditions that bring upon slavery and then act like "I always bring my slaves with me on vacation. They must really love me!" It's impressive how people can always write themselves as the good guy no matter what they do in life

[-] Venus@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago

I feel like if you know more than zero people with "servants" you should be constantly striving to make it zero.

Through violence john-brown

[-] Justice@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 11 months ago

"Do you condemn the actions of John Brown?"

Intense stare "Do I condemn the actions of John Brown?" momentary pause "I do not AND!... I will tell you why."

That's my written version of every time someone asks Finkelstein to condemn Hamas

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

I condem John Brown for not being more successful.

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 61 points 11 months ago

I, too, love to justify oppressive hierarchy by inventing scenarios where sometimes the oppressor acts with charitable benevolence.

[-] Cherufe@hexbear.net 52 points 11 months ago

I mean this isnt even charitable benevolence. They go to the vacations to serve the family, even in the example of the trip to space you would be working too.

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 29 points 11 months ago

True. It's the epitome of a "working vacation" for the staff.

[-] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago

At great personal risk, in the example of a space or near-space flight.

[-] jaeme@hexbear.net 47 points 11 months ago
[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@hexbear.net 27 points 11 months ago

Hope it ends the same

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 32 points 11 months ago

I, Rigoberta Menchu is a fantastic read for anyone interested in the history of Guatemala from an indigenous perspective. One of the things that stood out to me was how being a maid in the city was seen as pretty much the worst possible job, worse than working the fields on coffee plantations, because the people who owned the houses were such reactionary psychos

[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 29 points 11 months ago

MY BROTHER IN CHRIST

YOU PAY THE MAID

[-] privatized_sun@hexbear.net 25 points 11 months ago

enslavement is a long process, liberation is the opposite process

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 23 points 11 months ago

So that's where that clip was from where he makes the joke about being a communist? I was wondering what episode that was taken from. Guess I should read a bit more about the history of Singapore since it gets a lot of praise from libs and such.

[-] muddi@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months ago

Human nature is when people like mega-yachts and shit, and definitely not something like being with your loved ones

[-] Elon_Musk@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago
[-] sharkfucker420@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago

Usually he'll but sometimes spacehell

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
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[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Working on a mega yacht sounds terrible actually, you'd have to deal with a bunch of the most entitled rich assholes on the planet who are also probably drunk or high the whole time.

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago

Yeah I would go along with my boss on a yacht to work because I can convince him that i like him in order to get more money

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