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Old 03-12-2013, 04:25 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
And it's not all that different from working at a factory assembly line, now or ages past.
Take a widget from a conveyor, attach a screw, put it back on the conveyor... Repeat every other minute for 8 hours straight. Entire nations have been built that way.
You respect the workers but that is life in industrial society and always has been.
(A bit late for hand-wringing.)
This.. In the mid 1960's I worked at a cannery producing canned green beans. Talk about mind numbing, repetitious minimum wage job, overseen by supervisors on your back seemingly every minute.

Been there. Done that. Lasted a summer.
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