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How I get by: A week in the life of a McDonald’s cashier

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  1. Seven
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    Maybe this isn't the right place for this, but doesn't the presence of the tag "modern slavery" kind of bring a bit of inherent bias into this post? Like the article doesn't use the term and...

    Maybe this isn't the right place for this, but doesn't the presence of the tag "modern slavery" kind of bring a bit of inherent bias into this post? Like the article doesn't use the term and mentions nothing about slavery at all. I'm just kind of worried that by adding such opinions into the tags, a user may perceive that the subject of modern slavery is addressed in the article, which it isn't; it is simply the opinion of the OP that the subject matter of the article is akin to "modern slavery." It seems like very mild editorializing, which I don't think is something that we want here on Tildes (apart from comments, of course).

    By the way, I personally agree that this article's subject matter is akin to modern slavery, I just don't think it should be in the tags.

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  2. Greg
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    The hardship, sadly, is something I expected going into this article. The thing that really struck me was the way she talked about "Fight for $15 and a Union" - if someone asked me to describe it,...

    The hardship, sadly, is something I expected going into this article. The thing that really struck me was the way she talked about "Fight for $15 and a Union" - if someone asked me to describe it, I'd say something like "a group of workers who have organised together to fight for their collective rights". If it walks like a union and quacks like a union, I'm very surprised that it hasn't been able to get the legal recognition of a union.

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