Commentators are also saying that these workers experience higher than average rates of workplace injuries and are treated like "galley slaves."

Among all the world’s large creatures, the only survivors of the human flood will be humans themselves, and the farmyard animals that serve as galley slaves in Noah’s Ark.

“If you have it loud, too much of the time you have the poor string section treated like galley slaves,” he said.

The evil is industrialized labor itself—an entire existence spent like a galley slave pulling an oar.

For an outlaw who spent his time pillaging merchant ships and taking the survivors as galley slaves, he was impossibly clean.