re: #387 Dark_Falcon

If its a factory, I do hope your foreman is carrying Col. Fosbury’s automatic model. Proper factories should showcase the latest technology, after all.

As for the prosthetic, the Germans don’t have one for low birth, but they have one for just about everything else. The ones for factory work helpfully attach the worker to the machine, thereby preventing any unwanted wandering.

Pfft.

The orphan wrangler is far too down to the ranks to merit a decent pistol. Could be some kind of bolshie. His bosses’ boss is a good public school boy…he gets a proper weapon. And ammo.

Anyway, you don’t actually want to shoot the orphans. The open pits of pig shit, arsenic, and coal dust are killing them for free. The secret is to maintain the level of terror and underfeeding to maximize their labor, but too weak to abscond. That way they succumb before reaching majority and getting a vote.