{"id":31511,"date":"2012-11-26T21:43:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T04:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/26\/dying-for-a-job.html"},"modified":"2012-11-26T21:43:27","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T04:43:27","slug":"dying-for-a-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/26\/dying-for-a-job.html","title":{"rendered":"Dying for a job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I&#39;m sure the people who were working at that sweat shop in Bangladesh were really thankful for the employment &#8230; until the combination of locked fire escapes, uncharged extinguishers, and supervisors who told workers to get back to the lines as the fire alarms went off led to their deaths. Then, probably, not so thankful.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and that Triangle Factory Fire in New York? \u00a0Totally a bunch of impoverished laborers\u00a0who were glad for the job and resented any imposition of &quot;workplace safety&quot; and &quot;occupational hazard&quot; and other Taker-centric Euro-Socialist Marxist Intervention in the Free Market.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, after all, if a job turns out to be fatal, the Free Market will adjust to it and the dead will refuse to work there in their next life.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images1-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-shot-2012-11-26-at-5.26.37-PM-300x220.png&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2012\/11\/26\/1239371\/fox-host-people-who-died-in-walmart-factory-fire-should-be-thankful-they-had-a-job\/'>Fox Host: People Who Died In Walmart Factory Fire Were Thankful For Their Jobs<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe 129 Bangladeshis who died in a fire caused by poor fire safety conditions in their garment factory should be thankful for their jobs, according to Fox Business host Charles Payne. Speaking with Ne&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/G6AB6QWTz8b' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I&#39;m sure the people who were working at that sweat shop in Bangladesh were really thankful for the employment &#8230; until the combination of locked fire escapes, uncharged extinguishers, and supervisors who told workers to get back to the lines as the fire alarms went off led to their deaths. Then, probably, not so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/26\/dying-for-a-job.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dying for a job&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12230,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/19\/going_down.html","url_meta":{"origin":31511,"position":0},"title":"Going down!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 19-Jun-08 9:33am","format":false,"excerpt":"Fire drill time....","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Job Jollies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Job Jollies","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/job-jollies"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3054\/2592324261_4994ab6260.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":37247,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/04\/the-powerhouse-fire.html","url_meta":{"origin":31511,"position":1},"title":"The Powerhouse Fire","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 4-Jun-13 6:39pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This is actually 3-4 miles from my boss' house (though, fortunately, heading the other direction). \u00a0Crikey.Reshared post from +In FocusThe Terrible Beauty of California's Powerhouse Fire - 28 photos - http:\/\/theatln.tc\/16H2VDY - Last Thursday, a wildfire started in California's Angeles National Forest, north of Los Angeles, near a hydroelectric plant\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7555,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/02\/07\/starting_off_be.html","url_meta":{"origin":31511,"position":2},"title":"Starting off behind &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 7-Feb-05 6:07am","format":false,"excerpt":"Ton of e-mail at the office to catch up on, lot of initiatives that have, after hanging fire for a while, gone leaping ahead, and the need to take the...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Job Jollies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Job Jollies","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/job-jollies"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11338,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/18\/a_question_of_judgment.html","url_meta":{"origin":31511,"position":3},"title":"A question of judgment","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 18-Sep-07 9:20am","format":false,"excerpt":"Is it better to: Train people in the use of fire extinguishers in an office, so that, so long as they are at no risk in doing so, they can...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Job Jollies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Job Jollies","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/job-jollies"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12069,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/26\/tales_from_the_crypt.html","url_meta":{"origin":31511,"position":4},"title":"Tales from the Crypt","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 26-Nov-07 6:18am","format":false,"excerpt":"Life begins in the new, ostensibly temporary office. 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