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Sebastião Salgado on Gold Fever (from The Salt of the Earth - 2014)
https://archive.org/details/saltGado at 04:48
You get the impression they're slaves
But there wasn't a single slave
They were only slaves to the idea of getting rich
Everybody wanted to get rich
There were all sorts: intellectuals, university graduates, farm employees, urban workers
People from all walks of life were trying their luck
Because when you'd hit a vein of gold, everyone working that little section of a mine had the right to choose one sack.
And in that sack they had chosen -- and this is the slavery aspect -- there might be nothing or a kilo of gold!
At that very moment, one's freedom was at stake.
Men who come into contact with gold, can never leave it. [They are enslaved]
