Like the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire caused so much legislation in response to it. Meanwhile, when corporations have people killed due to negligence now, they'll just settle in a lawsuit at most...
You only really remember the stuff that led to action. There were many similar events before, the Triangle Shirtwaist fire was just the first one that happened in an environment in which something could be done about it.
That might be true for the US, but here in the UK it's not. When the UK had ANY major building fires and loss of life there was immediate kneejerk legislative change, in some cases too fast in my opinion and without proper investigation into what should change more specifically.
Now though? Well look at Grenfell. Fuck all. Nothing. And I don't expect the next Grenfell to cause legislation either.
People are saying unions but this isn't just a workplace thing. This used to happen with non-work stuff too. It just doesn't anymore.
Anti-unionism is inherently anti-solidarity. Society is atomized, fuck you got mine is the order of the day.
Haymarket Incident happened right around the same time, where some incredibly based anarchists threw some bombs at the pigs at a may day parade. I think it is about time for an anniversary celebration.
Stronger propaganda, every gets all their info from 6 billionaire owned media companies that work with the state and will never, ever talk about anything that diminishes their power. Further more most social interaction now happens online, with spaces that are owned by 1 of three billionaires. Conversations are very easy to monitor and control in that aspect, especially coinciding with the decline in public life.
everyone has covered the other points, I wanted to ad this.
The owners of the Triangle fire escaped nearly all consequences. I think they ended up paying something like $35 per dead worker to the families. then a few years later, one of the owners was caught locking employees in his factory again
A small part of it...
People forgot their past, or it was forgotten for them.
Language is a pretty powerful thing. Like, think about how the farthest "left" the average US citizen that you can be politically is "Liberal, Progressive, and Democrat".
Something something Weber, something something formalized bureaucracy. Something something capitalist realism. Something something Maoist third worldism
