• BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Have they not read “The Jungle”? Pretty sure this exact sort of thing was addressed a hundred years ago.

    • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
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      the thing about The Jungle was that we were supposed to read it and think “people need better working conditions” but a shockingly large number of people read it and thought “we need some sort of filtering system in place to keep all those immigrant thumbs out of the sausage”