Comment by throwaway290

14 days ago

There is an argument.

but maybe you have an idea of how manual labor feels (people always do some of it) but no idea how this type of horror feels and what it does.

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alephnerd  14 days ago

The alternatives in these kinds of villages in rural Jharkhand's tribal and red corridor are literally

1.) bit-piece agriculture work for the local landlord who will never pay salaries on time because he has the power

2.) migrate to the nearest big city (in this case Ranchi, Dhanbad, or Patna) and work at a factory for 12 hours a week with the exact same risks

3.) get married off

4.) join a Maoist outfit in order to surrender and get government rehabilitation benefits.

And all of this is assuming the men (and it's always men) who they are reporting to are not lecherous abusers which is a very real risk in these kinds of jobs for women in Ms Murmu's status.

Like out of all the bad options, this is the least bad one - especially in an area that was a warzone barely a decade ago.

  • bdangubic  14 days ago

    > this is the least bad one

    not that I wish this on anyone but you would change your mind very quickly if you had to do this job for just one hour. it can fuck you up for life

    • golem14  14 days ago

      I don't think anyone is disputing that this job is terrible, it clearly is. The counter argument is that many other jobs are also terrible, and it's not clear whether you can really stack rank them and this one is at the bottom of the pole.

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    • alephnerd  14 days ago

      So can working in the unorganized sector in the heart of the Red Corridor. Like this is literally one of the least developed parts of one of the least developed states in India.

      A tribal woman like Murmu who is clearly living in the Red Corridor districts (based on surname and geographic location) doesn't have any better choice.

      Yes content moderation introduces you to horrid content, but the alternatives give the very real risk of physical and sexual violence.