#labor abuse

[zenosanalytic]

The reason you can't raise the price of vidja games over $60 without ppl freaking out, even though the cost of production has risen massively over the last 20 years, is because wages haven't increased AT ALL in the last 40.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk u_u

[seriousbusinessforhumans]

[dontmindme-just-whatevering]

I’ve come to learn that nothing is actually “cheap”. If you come across something and your thought is “wow this is super cheap”, chances are you aren’t the one paying the price.

[seriousbusinessforhumans]

“The show brings in no experts to speak on the exotic animal trade and it’s devastating effect on these species populations. It ultimately feels like the tigers are reduced to background fodder for the bizzaro actions of Joe and his menagerie of off the wall characters”

“And while we see snippets of Joe’s egregious actions, the editing seems to constantly redeem him in one way or another. Sure he neglects the animals, but that’s only because these lawsuits are running him dry, sure he abuses his partners and staff but he’s deeply lonely and yelling is just one of his quirks, sure he publicly threatens to Murder and Rape Carole but she’s always trying to shut his business down and besides she’s a murderous hypocrite.”

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The social media accounts of these people have grown in popularity. #FreeJoeExotic trended on twitter. A bunch of people want to go to these “zoos” and are hoping the GW Zoo will reopen. I’ve seen many people framing Joe Exotic as a sort of kooky, rugged individualist. People talk about the series as a funny “white-trash” spectacle more than they do the problems of animal abuse, labor abuse, domestic abuse. Even if the murder for hire charge was false, he would still be serving a long sentence based on the 19 other counts he was charged with, mostly EPA violations.  

If the filmmakers thought they were making something meaningful, they are abject failures. I don’t think anyone walked away from ‘Blackfish’ wanting to support Sea World.

[seriousbusinessforhumans]

“The more you look at Amazon the more you realize that it’s convenience comes with a real cost. Just think about it. We used to have to drive to stores to buy things, not those things are brought directly to us and they’re somehow cheaper. That didn’t just happen with a clever algorithm. It happened by creating a system that squeezes the people lowest on the ladder hard. And all the while the man behind Amazon is now worth $118,000,000,000, more than anyone else in the world.”

[fakeosphere]

SC peach grower used foreign employee wage deductions to pay for political donations, Department of Labor says

The largest peach grower on the East Coast, based in South Carolina, owes some employees their wages back after the U.S. Department of Labor

[sunshinestate323]

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[pitiblu]

This is the first time I have taken vacation since I experienced workplace abuse at a former job a few years ago. Being able to rest without guilt, without thinking about work and allowing myself to disconnect is something new for me.