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Climate Activism Isn’t About the Planet. It’s About the Boredom of the Bourgeoisie | Opinion

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The downfall of capitalism will not come from the uprising of an impoverished working class but from the sabotage of a bored upper class. This was the view of the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter in 1942. Schumpeter believed that at some point in the future, an educated elite would have nothing left to struggle for and will instead start to struggle against the very system that they themselves live in.

Climate Activism Isn’t About the Planet. It’s About the Boredom of the Bourgeoisie | Opinion

Hyundai subsidiary in Alabama focus of child labor investigation

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State labor regulators opened an inquiry after a Reuters report found that children as young as 12 were put to work at the SMART metal stamping factory in Luverne.

Hyundai subsidiary in Alabama focus of child labor investigation

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Children as young as 12 have been working at a Hyundai-owned factory in Alabama, report says

Many of the minors at the plant were hired through recruitment agencies, according to current and former SMART workers and local labor recruiters who spoke to Reuters.

Tabatha Moultry, 39, a former SMART employee, told Reuters that the plant relied on migrant workers to keep up with high demand and remembered working with a migrant girl who “looked 11 or 12 years old.”