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From the Bourdain video about Singapore having slaves (maids)

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[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 70 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Oh really? When your choices are either being in squalor or being a slave servant, people chose the later? WOW!

Insert Stalin quote here

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Love to pat myself on the back for not chaining people to a post back home while I'm living a permanent leisure existence.

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's really hard to feed scraps to so many servants that do shitton of labor for me, being a job creator ain't easy!

But wait, what if I didn't even have to be responsible of feeding and clothing my slaves? cap-think

[–] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 64 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It's like if your boss ordered you to come along and work on a trip to space or hell even on a mega-yacht or something. You'd jump at that chance.

I love when people with pathetic politics assume everyone else is as housebroken and simpering as they are

[–] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 49 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Love to be trapped in a metal tube in the vacuum of space with my boss

[–] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago

"if your boss ordered you to get into a suicide submarine you knew to be poorly constructed, you'd jump at that chance"

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I dunno, it'd probably be easier to fedposting your boss off a megayacht in international waters rather than in the office

[–] Weedian@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

Give em the old Robert maxwell treatment

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"My boss wants me to go with him on his Titanic submarine holiday."

Also, in my experience, people are pretty evenly split on whether or not they want to travel for work, even if the destination is fun. A lot of people have child care commitments or would otherwise just rather stick to their schedule.

And this is for salaried professionals who would be getting their own accommodation and expenses paid. I've seen people turn down business class flights and 5 star hotels on the company dime.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 55 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I, too, love to justify oppressive hierarchy by inventing scenarios where sometimes the oppressor acts with charitable benevolence.

[–] Cherufe@hexbear.net 47 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I mean this isnt even charitable benevolence. They go to the vacations to serve the family, even in the example of the trip to space you would be working too.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago

True. It's the epitome of a "working vacation" for the staff.

[–] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

At great personal risk, in the example of a space or near-space flight.

[–] jaeme@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] the_post_of_tom_joad@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago

Hope it ends the same

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago

I, Rigoberta Menchu is a fantastic read for anyone interested in the history of Guatemala from an indigenous perspective. One of the things that stood out to me was how being a maid in the city was seen as pretty much the worst possible job, worse than working the fields on coffee plantations, because the people who owned the houses were such reactionary psychos

[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago

MY BROTHER IN CHRIST

YOU PAY THE MAID

[–] privatized_sun@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago

enslavement is a long process, liberation is the opposite process

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago

So that's where that clip was from where he makes the joke about being a communist? I was wondering what episode that was taken from. Guess I should read a bit more about the history of Singapore since it gets a lot of praise from libs and such.

[–] muddi@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

Human nature is when people like mega-yachts and shit, and definitely not something like being with your loved ones

[–] Elon_Musk@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] sharkfucker420@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

Usually he'll but sometimes spacehell

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

Yeah I would go along with my boss on a yacht to work because I can convince him that i like him in order to get more money

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Working on a mega yacht sounds terrible actually, you'd have to deal with a bunch of the most entitled rich assholes on the planet who are also probably drunk or high the whole time.