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"Turnover rates continue to rise. Wages plummet." - Nuanceheadlines


Posted: Jun 06, 2013

Following an in-depth investigative report of how corporate profits soar at the mercy of the increasingly invisible labor force in this business, we could publish a cartoon depicting a wide-mouth funnel at the top with all the newly "acquired" MTs falling in, with the bottom of the funnel (the other opening) pouring out the newly unemployed. Churning around inside the murky vortex are the chronically underpaid sweatshop slave-wage fools. 

Wonder if the creepy people responsible for this mess would even care? 

Now had you made it a toilet instead of a funnel - it would be MModal Headlines!

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