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Originally Posted by kennyc
Not an excuse for bad practices, but there are people out there that would kill for those jobs.
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In today's economy, there are people who would kill for any job, including one that paid $3 an hour. I don't find that sufficient justification for poor working conditions.
I know that many right-wingers in the U.S. would like to return to the days before there were labor laws, when children could be sent to the coal mines once they reached age 7 years and women could be locked in stifling factories that lack fire alarms, usable emergency exits, and water sprinklers -- all in the guise of free enterprise and too much government interference -- but the fact that people complain about working conditions yet continue to work under them does not mean that those conditions are figments of people's imaginations. I would think that Massey coal mine disaster would have disabused most people of the illogic that griping about conditions + continuing to work under them = false accusations.