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    The airport clerk at the lost luggage counter. I’ve watched dozens of people run over to wait in line, then to shout at him when it’s their turn, their flight was cancelled or redirected without their bags, they’re going to sue his company and demand he reimburses their entire vacation, all before he even opens his mouth. And then the next person has the same story and they have to spill the entire thing out again.

    The clerk looks tremendously beaten down, and just answers the customers with robotic answers, “please fill out the form, the airline will contact you within 24 hours. Please fill out the form, the airline will contact you within 24 hours.”

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    Jobs with a high mortality rate or drastically shortened life expectancy in places without an alternative.

    A migrant in a foreign land, alone, with hostile racist imbeciles everywhere around them, working like a slave.

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        Or the immigrants from Morocco that work the fields in Spain to produce fruits for all Europe.

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          They surrender their passport on arriving.

          They’re housed in a state so poor, that their keepers honestly said “they don’t need a shower as they can wash themselves from the bowl of a clean toilet” as if that was okay.

          They work in stifling heat without water, break, or humanitarian oversight.

          They die.

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    Content reviewer for big tech companies. It’s your job to watch live video of all the things that are against all the rules. It doesn’t matter if you don’t know the language; screams are universal. You have to push a button if it’s bad enough. They’re trying as hard as they can to replace you with AI, by the way. If we’re lucky, the AI is somehow good at this job without actually suffering.

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    Globally

    Probably being one of those exploited slaves in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the hand dug tunnels to mine cobalt. Or indebted slaves in Pakistan who spend their whole lives making bricks for taking out predatory loans.

    But where I live any manual labor as I am very accident prone, or DMV and Postoffice.

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      I saw a recent video about the debt slaves in Pakistan, the families making those bricks literally do nothing but make bricks all day every day. They sleep In a hut 10 meters away from where the work, wake up, and make clay bricks by hand all day until the sun goes down. They take short breaks to eat and they stop to sleep but other than that it’s just bricks all day every day. Whole families do it, husband, wife, grandmother, grandfather, kids (no school, just bricks). They work until their debt is paid off but the owners of their debt are purposely obscure about how much they owe and just keep them working as long as they can. It’s really sad.

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    Picking through a smouldering trash heap to collect the occasional phone, radio or whatever, to burn it down for metals.

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    Right now? Probably CEO of Twitter. In more conventional times, probably suicide bomber has gotta rank pretty high, I’d think.