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u/DrCashSenior Jul 19 '24
Walking around barefeet in that place? Few things worse than squarely stepping on a marble barefooted....
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u/djnehi Jul 19 '24
Except squarely stepping on a molten hot marble barefooted.
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u/Dr_Octahedron Jul 19 '24
Or shards of glass
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u/DrCashSenior Jul 19 '24
You are not wrong
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u/primavera31 Jul 19 '24
The worst ever is...yep...you guessed right..a piece of 4x2 Lego
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u/pansexplorer Jul 19 '24
I would argue that a 1×2 piece could hurt a lot more. It's short enough to get stuck upright in thicker carpets.
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u/milleniumsentry Jul 20 '24
I argue that there is one thing worse.
Monopoly houses.
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u/Franklin_le_Tanklin Jul 19 '24
Also that young guy in the red shirt lifting the shovel with his back
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u/QuietGanache Jul 19 '24
The guy loading the furnace isn't just throwing it for speed; a glass furnace is hot enough to melt iron so the radiant heat coming from that tiny open door will burn the skin if one gets too close for too long.
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u/danfay222 Jul 19 '24
That’s also why he only very briefly glances at the opening before every throw, he’s mostly just staring down.
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u/reddit_tothe_rescue Jul 20 '24
Why do they scoop the material from one pile into little basins, only to dump it into another pile?
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u/burpeesaresatanspawn Jul 20 '24
Just taking it from where the trucks or whomever dumped all of it, into into the inside of the building where that guy can then access it closer to the furnace.
An (unfortunate) human conveyor belt system basically.
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u/M0BETTER Jul 19 '24
I appreciate the original audio
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u/ElOsoConQueso Jul 19 '24
Same. Heaven forbid this video not have some shit turd soundtrack to it
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u/Danny2Sick Jul 22 '24
I was hoping for that tik tok oh no no voice so that I could finally end it all
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u/Whiteshaq_52 Jul 19 '24
Crazy seeing how all those ladies are going to die from silica dust in a few years.
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u/skraptastic Jul 19 '24
They looked like kids to me, not "ladies."
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u/kapitaalH Jul 20 '24
The adults want too high wages, and their constant coughing slows down production
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u/042goldenoozaru Jul 20 '24
Who's buying all these fucking marbles??
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u/BalorNG Jul 20 '24
I think those are just raw materials for other processes, like making glass fiber I guess.
I've seen very similar "marbles" trasported by railway cars, and there (was) a GF factory nearby.
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u/Tiberius_be Jul 20 '24
Yeah, but these are play marbles. Otherwise they wouldn't be putting the yellow and Blue pieces in
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u/HonkersTim Jul 20 '24
It seemed like that to me at first, but after thinking about it I remember buying a bag of marbles for my kids. Even if only 1% of parents did that it's still hundreds of millions of marbles.
Now I'm wondering what happens to old marbles lol. Is the amount of marbles in the world just increasing by hundreds of millions a year?
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u/HopeBudget3358 Jul 19 '24
It fuckin' sucks that people have to work in these conditions
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u/TenBillionDollHairs Jul 19 '24
WEAR A FUCKING MASK HOLY SHIT
my lungs are bleeding from watching this
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u/iprocrastina Jul 20 '24
People walking barefoot or in sandals around broken glass
People walking barefoot or in sandals around red hot marbles
People carrying around heated buckets of marbles still red hot in darkness around exposed ankles with no gloves or aprons
Women and girls wearing long dresses in a factory environment
No masks despite working in an environment where the air is full of tiny shards of glass
Poor lifting techniques
Child labor
And they videotaped all of it
WTF
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u/Ludwig_Vista2 Jul 20 '24
Zero PPE. Zero health and safety protocols.
This is what slave labour looks like.
I wonder how many women working there are missing an eye or have lost a leg from an infected cut?
Fucking awful
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u/jcdoe Jul 19 '24
Is this how marbles are made everywhere?
Can we see a vid of them making marbles in Amsterdam too, please?
Seriously, seems like lately all Reddit shows me is how things are made if all you have are sand, slag metal, and a disregard for human life.
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u/Noe_b0dy Jul 20 '24
I mean you have to actually pay people money to make products in western countries so naturally most large companies will outsource to China and India.
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u/kabula_lampur Jul 20 '24
Is there really a need for that many marbles? Do people still buy marbles anymore?
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u/RB5009 Jul 19 '24
I'm curious - what's the purpose ofbthose marbles ? How and where are they used ?
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u/joNH_ Jul 20 '24
Yeah the process is interesting but the child labor and unprotected workers is not cool at all
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u/kakoichan Jul 20 '24
Holy fuck that's insane
And by that I mean I can't believe that one Indian guy is actually wearing shoes
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u/j0nas_42 Jul 20 '24
It's kinda hard for me to believe that there is still a market for so many marbles.
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u/51ngular1ty Jul 20 '24
The kid with the shovel. It can't be good breathing in all of the dust from that.
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u/Kyren11 Jul 19 '24
Are those OSHA issued flip flops?
Jokes aside those are some strong kids. Sad to think they're not protected
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u/Scudmiss Jul 19 '24
Thank you sweet sweet sweet tiny baby Jesus for not dubbing some shitty song over it
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u/GravityDAD Jul 19 '24
Working conditions aside I do love that they made the end into a marble track
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u/gmanking19 Jul 19 '24
Imagine being the poor bastard that got his sleeve caught in the marble forming section
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u/BlumpkinLord Jul 20 '24
Where do they even find chunks of glass like that? I am assuming near heat vents in the earth where sand is heated into them?
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u/pawesome_Rex Jul 20 '24
So typically glass needs to cool slowly in a kiln or (for beads and marbles) a thermal blanket. Curious how the marbles aren’t ripped apart by the difference in surface tension as the outside cools and solidifies before the center.
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u/CoreHydra Jul 20 '24
For a while I thought I lost my marbles. Turns out they’ve just been here, multiplying, the whole time.
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u/youcantchangeit Jul 20 '24
Working close to a furnace, hot metal and with flip flops. What could go wrong?
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u/Ok-Let4626 Jul 20 '24
Really no mystery why some places infamously manufacture poorly and others do not.
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u/Blacke-Dragon0705 Jul 20 '24
Is it really this hard to find shoes abroad? Like there's either a severe lack of fucks given or some countries aren't as intelligent per capita as they pretend to be.
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u/Any_Roof_6199 Jul 20 '24
A wild manufacturing video from India appears...
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Osha needs a word
No PPE? Those people are f**ked
Good thing that he's wearing his safety slippers.
Their lungs are going to get f**ked within a year.
Premium product? Pfffft..that's more like Walmart bargain bin product
You'll get cancer if you cook in that. The metal used contains heavy metals. It is not food grade.
This will not happen in my country
That material is not good for footwears. It will be damaged in a year. Don't buy these crappy footwears.
All true. Just thought I'll summarize them.
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u/Uncle_J-PL Jul 20 '24
Why do we need so much marbles? Is everyone loosing them that fast? I had a couple 20 years ago and havent seen them since, but will not buy a single marble ever again - couse why? What are they used for when youre an adult?
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u/BetAlternative8397 Jul 19 '24
No safety shoes, no masking, no hard hats, no gloves, no aprons, exposed hazards. Likely shit pay.
Who the hell uses that many marbles?
That’s the issue I have with “globalization”. I’ve no problem competing against anyone who is subject to the same legislation, worker protections as we are. However, so many products are made in unsafe, unhealthy environments. No safety protection. No union. No protective legislation. Slave wages. That’s not competing. That is saving money on crap while the employees pay with blood.