JC
John Cutting
@johncutting.bsky.social
Writer at Fortuna Saga, sprite artist, veteran, bisexual dad, and someone who generally over-thinks SNES RPGs.
Chaotic Neutral; He/Him
#LostNoise #spritecomic
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Before Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, meat packing plants in almost wholly unregulated meat packing plants in Chicago were mixing corded rope with meat which got stuck in people's guts and killed them. It was just hard to prove which hellhole to hold responsible so it didn't happen.
This PBS show is worth a watch: www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...
Or the free market life vests used by the SS General Slocum that had cork dusk (that floated away when it got wet) and IRON FUCKING BARS inside the vests which drowned people who tried to swim with the vests on.
![It was discovered that Nonpareil Cork Works, supplier of cork materials to manufacturers of life preservers, placed 8 oz (230 g) iron bars inside the cork materials to meet minimum content requirements (6 lb (2.7 kg) of "good cork") at the time. Nonpareil's deception was revealed by David Kahnweiler's Sons, who inspected a shipment of 300 cork blocks.[5]: 71–72 Many of the life preservers had been filled with cheap and less effective granulated cork and brought up to proper weight by the inclusion of the iron weights. Canvas covers, rotted with age, split and scattered the powdered cork. Managers of the company (Nonpareil Cork Works) were indicted but not convicted. The life preservers on the Slocum had been manufactured in 1891 and had hung above the deck, unprotected from the elements, for 13 years.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:q3kebere6tp2uzxdkrcqlcyy/bafkreigcnlaexlluoc2u2hosvlipqvt4j3m2xegxrhxdny5uw3qofdrznm@jpeg)
Republican free-market paradise.
That is disgusting to hear. Was that in The Jungle?
JC
John Cutting
@johncutting.bsky.social
Writer at Fortuna Saga, sprite artist, veteran, bisexual dad, and someone who generally over-thinks SNES RPGs.
Chaotic Neutral; He/Him
#LostNoise #spritecomic
www.fortunasaga.com
313 followers159 following6.9k posts