• Th4tGuyII@fedia.io
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    Otake’s mother was seen in tears, saying, “My daughter is not coming back”.

    I feel so sorry for their family. Imagine losing your child because their employer didn’t want to risk losing a single day’s sales

    A sales manager reflected on the incident, saying, “Looking back, the sales proceeds were not worth a human life”.

    The company’s director was also quoted saying: “This is a matter of profound sorrow, and I offer my deepest apologies to the bereaved family.”

    It’s easy to say all this in retrospect. Two families lost their children because of this, no amount of retrospective analysis and apologies can make them come back.

    If the company truly cared for the human lives they needlessly destroyed, they’d have never sent them back into harm’s way.

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      Capitalism in action. Thousands die every day for the profits of a few. This one is just more obvious than some of the rest

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      “Yeah looking back on it all maybe we shouldn’t have murdered that worker to get a sale” is a crazy take.

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      I am unsure why you want capitalism in this fascist nation.
      This is exactly how capitalism works.

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      I mean to be fair it’s not the company director; it’s the store manager. Presumably the company’s C-suite wouldn’t want this to happen as it’d expose them to liability.

      Edit: See below.