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Or a 21st century poultry processing plant worker.

I think his point is that those jobs still exist, the working poor are still suffering as much as they always have been, and that there's been a recent reversal in progress.

My ancestors worked in shitty conditions that destroyed their bodies to see that their descendents could have a better life. And, here we are, and their descendants are living relatively as terribly as they did.



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