(I wonder if we will ever get like that in England. God knows Victorian factories with their long hours, brutal overseers, non existent safety regulations and murderous effects on life expectacy must have been quite as bad as plantation work. I suppose the people weren't slaves - but it was certainly one fuck of a life for most people. And yet we tend to honour these industrialists. We restore their hell hole factories to look like cathedrals.In living memory our politicians have received standing ovations asking for a return to Victorian values.
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