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Workers allege ‘nightmare’ conditions at Kentucky startup JD Vance helped fund

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Welcome to the world of tech startups. This is the norm, not the exception. One out of ten might make it.
 
bomberfox said:
The vast majority of worker discontent in our system is not having a voice and alienated labor.
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Well that is certainly an innate result of Corporate Capitalism.
 
Phys251 said:
Worker abuse is the norm with tech startups?
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Tech is a competitive meat grinder. That's what make it's great and that's what makes it awful.
 
Ikari said:
Well that is certainly an innate result of Corporate Capitalism.
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Or capitalism really where the control of factories is in the hands of people with completely different interests than that of the worker. The current malaise is simply the upper crust engaging in their own self interest.
 
Phys251 said:
That's a capitalist take. How about what the workers go through?
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USA Tech is the number #1 in the world. That's not a coincidence. Companies that make it compensate their workers quite well. There's more millionaires from tech than anything else.
 
dmpi said:
USA Tech is the number #1 in the world.
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According to what?

dmpi said:
That's not a coincidence. Companies that make it compensate their workers quite well. There's more millionaires from tech than anything else.
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Workers need to be shafted to maintain an advantage?
 
dmpi said:
Welcome to the world of tech startups. This is the norm, not the exception. One out of ten might make it.
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What?

Did you even read the article?

This wasn’t coders pulling all nighters churning out code.

This was people toiling in extreme temperatures inside greenhouses without breaks!

AppHarvest employees said they were forced to work in grueling conditions inside the company’s greenhouse, where temperatures often soared into the triple digits
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And OF course, after grinding through the local workforce and treating them horrifically

Despite promising local jobs, the company eventually began contracting migrant workers from Mexico, Guatemala and other countries, numerous former employees told CNN
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Quoted from the link in the op.


If true, JD is even a bigger scumbag than we already knew.
 
dmpi said:
Welcome to the world of tech startups. This is the norm, not the exception. One out of ten might make it.
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This doesn’t seem to have been a tech startup so much as a bunch of large Kentucky greenhouses staffed by migrant labor to grow tomatoes in moldy conditions. Just because they put “App” in their name doesn’t mean there was actually, you know, an app.

“They brought Mitch McConnell into the greenhouse, and they sent every single Hispanic worker home before he got there,” Hester said. “He then proceeded to have a speech about how we were taking the jobs from the Mexicans.” At least five workers confirmed Hester’s account of McConnell’s visit to CNN.
 
BirdinHand said:
The complaints aren’t from the folks writing code.

Read the article perhaps?
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They got 28 million dollars in funding. I'd like you write a proposal to get anywhere near that by just growing tomatoes.
 
dmpi said:
They got 28 million dollars in funding. I'd like you write a proposal to get anywhere near that by just growing tomatoes.
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Does that somehow absolve them from treating people like shit?
 
dmpi said:
Welcome to the world of tech startups. This is the norm, not the exception. One out of ten might make it.
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You obviously didn't read a word of the article. Just because it had "App" in its name, you think it was a tech startup. It was located in eastern Kentucky, part of Appalachia and the App in the name reflects its location. Read it in its entirety and then get back to us, acknowledging your error.
 
dmpi said:
Welcome to the world of tech startups. This is the norm, not the exception. One out of ten might make it.
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This article is not about success rates of tech companies, its about abhorrent working conditions at this particular company.

AppHarvest employees said they were forced to work in grueling conditions inside the company’s greenhouse, where temperatures often soared into the triple digits. Complaints filed with the US Department of Labor and a Kentucky regulator between 2020 and 2023 show that workers alleged they were given insufficient water breaks and weren’t provided adequate safety gear. Some workers said they suffered heat exhaustion or injuries, though state inspectors did not find violations.

Despite promising local jobs, the company eventually began contracting migrant workers from Mexico, Guatemala and other countries, numerous former employees told CNN. While Vance stepped down from AppHarvest’s board and launched his political career in 2021, he remained an investor and supporter of the company. By the time he was sworn in to office last year, the company he’d hailed as a great opportunity was mired in lawsuits filed by shareholders angry over its plummeting stock price and allegations of fraud.
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Of course, my favorite part is rather than improving working conditions, they "migrated" to migrant workers. Like father, like son is Trump (abused foreign workers) to Vance (abused foreign workers). And fraud as well: "my there JD, you are a chip off the ole' block.'"
 
dmpi said:
They got 28 million dollars in funding. I'd like you write a proposal to get anywhere near that by just growing tomatoes.
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As an aside, have you considered actually reading an article before attempting to summarize it?

I’ve been through two tech startups so far. Both involved long hours, hard work and a lot of stress. However, triple digit temperatures in working environments and frequent exposure to mold were not part of the experience nor would they have been tolerated.

Perhaps you should do a couple of tech startups as well before you make claims about what the experience is like.

But, I suggest you begin by reading the article first.
 
This is capitalism free from any voice of the workers. Not so free is it?
 
BirdinHand said:
Tell that to the person talking about tech start ups that likely didn’t read the article.


This was JD treating people like indentured servants

No more, no less.



MAGA!

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Well, I tried, but reasoning with a MAGA often feels fruitless. He is obligated to defend 100% of Vance’s interests by any means necessary, and if that requires making up a bunch of random crap, so be it.

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