• kersplooshA
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    1 year ago

    As I walk through the front door of my air-conditioned office building and say hello to the receptionist I can’t help but feel this is just what it was like living under Marcos or Pinochet.

    /s

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      1 year ago

      Plenty of people live comfortable lives under dictatorship, you can compare that office worker to a citizen in Qatar and they’d probably live similar lives materially.

      You could also compare the sweat shop worker for the company that office workers company contracts their manufacturing out to, to the migrant pseudo-slave workers in Qatar.

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        1 year ago

        the migrant pseudo-slave slave workers in Qatar.

        Think you had a typo there^