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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Perhaps we can have some lifestyle programming showing them developing-world sweatshop workers who balance breastfeeding with working a 120-hour week as aspirational models?

After watching a "third world worker makes food really fast" video I thought about who that appeals to other than people that want to watch sensory experiences. It was asshole CEOs and bosses that want to actively hate on and work their staff into dust. I thought a possibly profitable venture would be just making a subscription service that would serve them up those videos with statistics about how productive x person is.

Of course, people profiteering off the videos of these literally poor people without giving anything back are doing something unethical, so doing it on a bigger scale is also unethical and not worth it in case it fails. (thus, bad for ethical AND pragmatic reasons)