Re:How real is America’s chipmaking renaissance?
by pianoben on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @03:33PM
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Seriously! People forget that bosses responded to unionization with actual violent assault, including sending literal bombers against striking miners (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain). Children get to go to school and not work because Unions fought. We have a weekend because Unions fought. We have an eight-hour workday because Unions fought.
Re:How real is America’s chipmaking renaissance?
by CamperBob2 on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @03:48PM
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We have laws to address those things now. You wouldn't believe the paperwork when someone gets boiled alive at work nowadays.
children used to work 10 hours a day and lose hands in machinery. hell, kids are dying in factories now, and the rules just keep getting rolled back further.
miners get black lung or asbestos exposure.
dudes boiled alive in machinery that didn't have fail safes.
company towns that only paid in scrip and then charged you 3x the price of regular goods.
people had to fight and die for an 8 hour workday.
the bourgeoisie programmer types who've never had to work actually dangerous jobs tend to forget just how incredibly brutal working conditions used to be.