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Today in American capitalism - Einzige - 11-20-2020 Quote: As state officials and lawmakers urged the shutdown of a Tyson Foods pork-processing plant in Iowa, managers at the plant reportedly placed bets on how many would end up getting sick. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/11/19/covid-tyson-lawsuit-managers-placed-bets-workers-get-sick/3775892001/ RE: Today in American capitalism - pbrower2a - 11-20-2020 Without question this is extremely callous behavior, inexcusable in a country in which (allegedly) the Judeo-Christian ethic that mandates that people cherish life prevails. The callous culture obviously existed before COVID-19; nobody at the top saw anything wrong until a lawsuit was initiated. We Americans have been getting food at freakishly-low costs at the checkout, but all too often we forget why it is so cheap. Efficiency in farming? Sure -- because farm policies promote consolidation of what were family farms into giant plantations. Efficiency in processing? Because the health of workers in food-processing plants does not matter. The Romans had cheap entertainment because they could find plenty of people to sacrifice inexpensively (POW's, slaves that a master was willing to sell, and of course religious dissidents) for the sick games. I'll take Pope Francis over Donald Judas Trump any day. And I am not a Catholic! |