• unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth
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    20 days ago

    Well it has, indirectly. Plenty of times, it has given politics and unions a basis for demanding those improvements. Looking back over the last century or so, conditions have improved, drastically.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      20 days ago

      Kind of. There’s that, and also that imperialist countries have exported their greatest abuse to the periphery.

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      20 days ago

      They have simply by virtue of the working conditions getting nuked from orbit during the industrial revolution. Testimony from pre-industrial times show that we’re working ourselves to the bone in comparison (I’ll take that instead of, you know, literal medieval living conditions, but still)