cross-posted from: https://r.nf/post/1572569
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/23492059
Part 1 of a 2023 Pultizer-winning article series by Hannah Dreier
Arriving in record numbers, they’re ending up in dangerous jobs that violate child labor laws — including in factories that make products for well-known brands like Cheetos and Fruit of the Loom.
Orphan-Crushing Machine is a metaphor for “heartwarming” news stories about someone remedying the immediate effects of a sociopolitical issue that ignore the root cause of said issue. The catchphrase and metaphor satirize these stories by comparing them to a story of a person raising money to keep 200 orphans from being crushed where nobody questions why an orphan-crushing machine exists in the first place.
They yearn for the mines.
