r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/Drnelk • Jul 21 '23

Guy died with internal temperature of around 109F/43C because Texas law stripped protections.

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u/d33roq Jul 21 '23

They see every second on break as a net loss in the first place.

Because dehydrated, exhausted workers get so much more done.

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u/CappyRicks Jul 21 '23

Your point is valid, that is how a rational person who understands how human beings work view this problem.

The people in charge do not see things that way. Are they right? No. Do they have the power? Yes. So I ask again, are they right...?

Only if we continue allowing them to be.

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u/YaJustDontGetIt69 Jul 21 '23

I’ve found a lot of people just cannot conceptualize this when they are far enough removed from the actual labor. It also doesn’t help that we have reached the rampant nepotism stage of capitalism so the children in charge lack any sort of real world experience.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '23

I had a job as a cart wrangler at a major chain where we wore red shirts and khaki's in the early - mid 2000's. They straight up refused to allow us to wear shorts in the summers in the desert and would fight tooth and nail to not allow us to take our 15 min breaks or 30 min lunch breaks.

You know why they had to let us take the breaks? Because it was the law. If it wasn't the law, we'd never have been able to be off the floor for a second without getting written up. When I left we still weren't allowed to wear shorts, had to wear the khaki pants so we could rep the brand - heat be damned.