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They were instructed to wet the tip of the brushes on their tongue to make it pointy. Causing them to regularly ingest small quantities of Radium.
Sounds like good old American manufacturing. Could have easily left a little cup with water nearby, but the workers got a tongue so that would just drive up costs!
Capitalists need to be shot in the streets like rabid dogs
Eh, some of them maybe but try and remember that it's a tool for economic function, yes there are alternatives, but surely Stalinist communism taught us that any economic system like any tool can be abused. It's most likely we'll need a better culture if we're to fix the issues with the world that capitalism is often used to exasperate.