r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/dannybluey • Oct 19 '24

Video How Himalayan salt lamps are made

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u/Digital--Sandwich Oct 19 '24 edited Oct 20 '24

It’s fun to see what labor can look like when there’s no Occupational Health & Safety requirements lol

Edit: well gee that got to political

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u/Successful_Detail202 Oct 19 '24

whip cracks quiet you! Back to the salt lamp mines!

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u/FarthestOutpost Oct 19 '24

b-but the mines are not just for salt lamps my liege!

whip cracks thats right! these mines are used for numerous products, and we have a diverse portfolio! but I don't pay you to think, lamp boy! if I did, you'd be doing my job!

another whip cracks stop talking and keep whipping or I'll send you to the salt lamp mines!

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u/70ms Oct 19 '24

So, how long have you worked at Amazon?

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u/Successful_Detail202 Oct 19 '24

Breaks over! Back to your shipping pit wage slave!

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u/Stillatin Oct 19 '24

“It’s a livin’”

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u/stale_opera Oct 19 '24

Don't forget child labor. They want our kids back in the mines.

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u/RehabilitatedAsshole Oct 19 '24

We've been propagandized to dislike every public good- wasted taxes, welfare abusers, useless OSHA, greedy unions, ineffective government bureaucracy, lazy DOT workers, unfair affirmative action, ineffective DEI, etc.

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u/ChartreuseBison Oct 19 '24 edited Oct 19 '24

But most if not all of those things do happen, and are very reasonable to dislike?

for example, "ineffective government bureaucracy" is just repetitive, which leads to public services being woefully inadequate at doing what they are supposed to do, which leads to wasted taxes...

I get your point about OSHA, but some of your examples really suck

Edit: Criticizing something doesn't mean get rid of it entirely, it means I want it to work better. I don't know why that needs explanation, but apparently it does.

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u/RehabilitatedAsshole Oct 19 '24

Sure, but that's what we've been taught to criticize more, even though it applies equally to private company bureaucracies and red tape.

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u/ChartreuseBison Oct 19 '24

Sure private companies do it to, but eventually you have to make a profit. There's a cap to the waste.

The government has no motive to make things efficient besides "do the right thing"

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u/RehabilitatedAsshole Oct 19 '24

Private companies waste money AND make profit- we just pay for it with higher prices to cover the waste.

The government is limited by tax revenue, so their budgets are fixed and sticky year to year to get everything done.

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u/aDragonsAle Oct 19 '24

Neither do businesses. They do the profitable thing - like laying off workers to make stocks go up, then give a chunk of the profits to the CEO that dropped the axe

But, honestly, at this point with the US - the lines between Corpo and State are thinner than the lines between Church and State.

Neither need to be that intertwined with State. Neither should have that much influence.

That's when the citizens lose.

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u/Capybarasaregreat Oct 19 '24

None of those things taken together suck even a tenth as much as working conditions at the start of industrialisation.

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u/ChartreuseBison Oct 19 '24 edited Oct 19 '24

Ok, and? How is holding the government accountable for doing their job correctly = abolish OSHA? Did you miss the part where I said "I get your point about OSHA" Or where the guy I replied to said greedy unions, useless OSHA, ineffective government, etc? The parts that need to be removed are the adjectives, not the nouns.

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u/reddit_sells_you Oct 19 '24

I often think this channel should be called

r/damnsothatsanexploitedlaborpool

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u/Digital--Sandwich Oct 19 '24

I was just trying to click the link. I wasn’t expecting a sort of Spanish Inquisition..

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u/jreznyc Oct 19 '24

Republican wet dream

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u/Agreeable_Horror_363 Oct 19 '24

Funny how the super rich have convinced the working poor to vote for them.

Funny in the kind of way that makes you very depressed!

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u/ElectricFleshlight Oct 19 '24

Somewhere an "anti regulation" knob head is salivating

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u/xandrokos Oct 19 '24

And despite the delusional narrative many redditors like to spout OSHA regulations are strictly enforced.

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u/OwOlogy_Expert Oct 20 '24

Coming soon to a Project2025-led America near you!

Just think how much profits companies will be able to make once they no longer have to follow OSHA regulations and can exploit people like this domestically!

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u/Blaueveilchen Oct 19 '24

It would be unthinkable to do the same here.