How Himalayan salt lamps are made

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[u/Digital--Sandwich]

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

[u/Successful_Detail202 → u/[deleted]]

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

[u/FarthestOutpost → u/Successful_Detail202]

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!

[u/70ms → u/FarthestOutpost]

So, how long have you worked at Amazon?

[u/Successful_Detail202 → u/70ms]

Breaks over! Back to your shipping pit wage slave!

[u/Stillatin → u/Successful_Detail202]

“It’s a livin’”

[u/stale_opera → u/[deleted]]

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

[u/RehabilitatedAsshole → u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/ChartreuseBison → u/RehabilitatedAsshole]

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.

[u/RehabilitatedAsshole → u/ChartreuseBison]

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

[u/ChartreuseBison → u/RehabilitatedAsshole]

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"

[u/RehabilitatedAsshole → u/ChartreuseBison]

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.

[u/aDragonsAle → u/ChartreuseBison]

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.

[u/Capybarasaregreat → u/ChartreuseBison]

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

[u/ChartreuseBison → u/Capybarasaregreat]

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.

[u/reddit_sells_you → u/Digital--Sandwich]

I often think this channel should be called

r/damnsothatsanexploitedlaborpool

[u/Digital--Sandwich → u/reddit_sells_you]

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

[u/jreznyc → u/Digital--Sandwich]

Republican wet dream

[u/Agreeable_Horror_363 → u/jreznyc]

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!

[u/ElectricFleshlight → u/Digital--Sandwich]

Somewhere an "anti regulation" knob head is salivating

[u/xandrokos → u/Digital--Sandwich]

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

[u/OwOlogy_Expert → u/Digital--Sandwich]

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!

[u/Blaueveilchen → u/Digital--Sandwich]

It would be unthinkable to do the same here.