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I've been wondering why Texas and other red states (Florida, most recently) have been outlawing water and rest breaks for construction workers, and it comes down to the definition of "conservative" from Corey Robin: "a conservative is someone who believes that a minority of people were born to rule, and that everyone else was born to follow their rules, and that the world is in harmony when the born rulers are in charge."

We know water and rest breaks keep workers healthy and able to do their jobs, so why the hell do you want to risk your worker getting heat-stroke and unable to do their work?

In order to assert your dominance.

As Cory Doctorow says "The conservative project of the past 40 years has been to reverse this: to return the great majority of us to the status of desperate, forelock-tugging plebs who know our places".

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