Upton Sinclair wrote an expose on how manipulated American factory workers were and how socialism was the answer. And everyone’s takeaway was just, “ew they’re putting rats in our food”. Which, yeah that sucks, but is kinda missing the bigger picture.
Anyway, whenever I see issues with the FDA being underfunded I think about some of the imagery in that book and cringe
Read it as a class book in high school and the analysis was just as :LIB: as you said. This thing was on the AP test and the most they would say about it is that it changed food safety laws. Apparently when the book was first published that’s what people freaked out about, not the insane labor conditions. It reminds me of that German movie where Hitler travels to the future and kills a dog and THAT’s what makes him unpopular, not, you know, being Hitler.
For those not in the know the film is Er ist wieder da / Look who's back and I can't recommend it highly enough