| I took Gort's comments (highlighted in red) to be hyperbole.
Gort, did you really mean enslaved workers bound with chains and guarded by dogs and all that old timey 18th Century stuff? Please Sir, may I have another bowl of porridge? LOL |
I employed extravagant terms like “slave labor,” “wretched working conditions” and “ziltch” salaries to conjure up absurd employment scenarios—deliberately overstated to pique your imagination. I further certified that no ethical diecast manufacturer fosters or promotes such practices, nor was I suggesting they do.
So, no, SneakyPete—I wasn’t implying modern-day work dungeons gush with wretches embroidered in heavy chains.
Of course I indulged in hyperbole.
On the other hand, who of us has actually
visited factories in far-flung countries? Observed their production lines and measured their working conditions? “Slave labor,” “wretched working conditions” and “ziltch” salaries are relative terms: overlarge perhaps, but very possibly closer to reality than we’d like to believe. Clearly, marginal economic conditions around the world suggest that some workers—perhaps many workers—
are bound with chains (economic).