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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker argues that the worst-off workers are those trapped in constant repetition, doing one task every minute or even many times a minute. Their fair reward, the speaker says, should reverse the usual pattern: fewer working hours and the best pay, in compensation for the monotony.
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