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created: 2022-02-07
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# Sebastião Salgado on Gold Fever (from The Salt of the Earth - 2014)
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https://archive.org/details/saltGado at 04:48
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> You get the impression they're slaves
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> But there wasn't a single slave
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> They were only slaves to the idea of getting rich
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> Everybody wanted to get rich
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> There were all sorts: intellectuals, university graduates, farm employees, urban workers
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> People from all walks of life were trying their luck
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> Because when you'd hit a vein of gold, everyone working that little section of a mine had the right to choose one sack.
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> And in that sack they had chosen -- and this is the slavery aspect -- there might be nothing or a kilo of gold!
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> At that very moment, one's freedom was at stake.
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> Men who come into contact with gold, can never leave it. [They are enslaved]
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