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3rd April 2021

Post reblogged from Kontextmaschine with 155 notes

kontextmaschine:

So in the iconic situation of prisoners tasked to break rocks apart in the yard, what are they… accomplishing? Creating gravel?

Enough of you are suggesting “for road surfacing” and that’s coherent; road and ditch work is a classic unskilled labor sink

(Roads used to be built and maintained by corvee labor, citizens required to work a certain number of days a year. The wealthy hired others, and it was effectively a way to keep farm laborers employed and occupied in the summer between planting and harvest)

But still I have a hard time picturing even forced manual labor being as efficient as a triphammer mill set up on even the dinkiest creek

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