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Working on California's incarcerated fire crews: "It is kind of like you’re a slave"(www.motherjones.com)

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Some 1,100 prison recruits are battling LA’s infernos, risking life and health for less than $2 an hour—yet still the jobs are coveted.

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hypna@lemmy.world
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Imagine responding to someone’s concern without flipping your shit at them.

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zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev
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If you were concerned about the people and not the statistics, which you bothered to cast doubt on but didn’t bother to actually look anything up, I might take you seriously.

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Anyone come at me defending slavery I will flip my shit.

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