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I drink your milkshake! a metaphor for capitalism
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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 2967388" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p>"The reality of working in a factory making clothes for Ivanka Trump’s label has been laid bare, with employees speaking of being paid so little they cannot live with their children, anti-union intimidation and women being offered a bonus if they don’t take time off while menstruating.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/13/revealed-reality-of-a-life-working-in-an-ivanka-trump-clothing-factory" target="_blank">Revealed: reality of life working in an Ivanka Trump clothing factory</a></p><p></p><p>Throughout her marriage to her husband, Ahmad, one or both of them has always worked. And yet, says Alia, the couple can never think about clearing their debts. Instead, what she has to show for years of work at PT Buma is two rooms in a dusty boarding house, rented for $30 a month and decorated with dozens of photos of their children because the couple can’t dream of having enough money to have them at home. The children live, instead, with their grandmother, hours away by motorcycle, and see their parents just one weekend a month, when they can afford the gasoline.</p><p></p><p>a monthly bonus of $10.50 if they don’t take a day off for menstruation.</p><p></p><p>Seven workers also said they were subject to verbal abuse, being called things like “animals, maroon and monkey”. Otang said this, too, was fairly common."</p><p></p><p>imagine what capitalists call the workers when theyre not around. the jokes on us.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 2967388, member: 56035"] "The reality of working in a factory making clothes for Ivanka Trump’s label has been laid bare, with employees speaking of being paid so little they cannot live with their children, anti-union intimidation and women being offered a bonus if they don’t take time off while menstruating. [URL="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/13/revealed-reality-of-a-life-working-in-an-ivanka-trump-clothing-factory"]Revealed: reality of life working in an Ivanka Trump clothing factory[/URL] Throughout her marriage to her husband, Ahmad, one or both of them has always worked. And yet, says Alia, the couple can never think about clearing their debts. Instead, what she has to show for years of work at PT Buma is two rooms in a dusty boarding house, rented for $30 a month and decorated with dozens of photos of their children because the couple can’t dream of having enough money to have them at home. The children live, instead, with their grandmother, hours away by motorcycle, and see their parents just one weekend a month, when they can afford the gasoline. a monthly bonus of $10.50 if they don’t take a day off for menstruation. Seven workers also said they were subject to verbal abuse, being called things like “animals, maroon and monkey”. Otang said this, too, was fairly common." imagine what capitalists call the workers when theyre not around. the jokes on us. [/QUOTE]
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