This is why a number of Republican-controlled states have banned municipal governments from imposing workplace rules to limit heat exposure.

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    You’re thinking of conservatives. The cruelty isn’t the point with the chamber of commerce. Profits are the point. Anything that benefits the worker reduces profits for the capitalist.

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      I think you’re wrong. If they actually cared about profits, it would be easy to understand that a healthy workforce is better. But these people just enjoy inflicting misery.

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        Correct. Just as they expect farm animals to be treated as machinery, they expect humans to be treated as machinery – unless it’s themselves and those they deem worthy.

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      I said what I said, and meant it. I know what I think, and don’t need anyone to tell me otherwise.