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Re:Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after fou... by runarberg on Friday April 23, 2021 @06:11AM (#26913019)
Normally I don’t engage in these kind of false comparisons and I do know that south east asia has a problem with off shore industrial slavery unprecedented in the USA. Sometimes things are uniquely bad in other parts of the world and there is no domestic comparison. That is certainly the case with the enslaved fishing vessels (although a case can be made about EU/EFTA operated fishing vessels out of Western Sahara and Mauritania).

But now I’m gonna make an exception and point to the Hard Rock building collapse in New Orleans in 2019 which killed 3 workers and injured dozens more[1]. Things like that happen all the time in the US as well.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1031_Canal#Partial_collapse_du...

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Re:Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after fou... by jjeaff on Friday April 23, 2021 @02:25PM (#26917598)
That Hard Rock building collapse did not seem to be something that happens all the time in the US. That thing got tons of news coverage because it is rare. It definitely happens, but not on the scale of many of the countries it is being compared to in this thread.
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