gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 9 months agoTennessee firm employed minors to clean meat saws, head splitters at slaughterhouseswww.nbcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1268arrow-down15file-textcross-posted to: news@lemmy.worldpolitics@sh.itjust.works
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minus-squareThrowawayOnLemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down2·9 months agoAnyone working at Perdue farms wanna explain how they’re cool working for a place like this?
minus-squaremaynarkh@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up6·9 months agoI guess the alternative is starvation. I don’t think many people dream of operating a headsplitter as their dream job growing up.
minus-squareMonkderZweite@feddit.chlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months ago I guess the alternative is starvation. Here’s the problem.
minus-squaremaynarkh@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months agoYeah, but the corps say that helping people would remove their “work incentives” and make the economy worse.
minus-squareikidd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·9 months agoYou haven’t known fun until you’ve split a steer head, let me tell you.
minus-squareikidd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoI sometimes wonder if everyone on this website has a crippled sense of humor.
minus-squarereksaslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoOnly insane people would willingly choose to be there.
Anyone working at Perdue farms wanna explain how they’re cool working for a place like this?
I guess the alternative is starvation. I don’t think many people dream of operating a headsplitter as their dream job growing up.
Here’s the problem.
Yeah, but the corps say that helping people would remove their “work incentives” and make the economy worse.
You haven’t known fun until you’ve split a steer head, let me tell you.
We have very different ideas of fun.
I sometimes wonder if everyone on this website has a crippled sense of humor.
Only insane people would willingly choose to be there.