113 Years after the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire and not enough has changed for the better.
This story and the Triangle Shirtwaist fire should be a reminder that almost every large business owner would kill you if it meant they could make slightly more money.
How much extra value do you think they generated in a couple of hours of making plastic pipes? That’s what their lives were worth to the factory owners.
Can’t really expect change when all we vote for are capitalists. If we want our culture to change, we have to make different choices in the ballot box.
That’s part of it. Unions also made a difference for a while, until the propaganda machine convinced a bunch of people that Unions were bad. When in reality, Unions are a benefit to everyone, they protect workers from bad bosses, and historically they also protected bosses from getting the shit beat out of them by their employees.