Are you familiar with Justin Isherwood's writing? Just wondering. I had experiences in common with you both to some degree. My father wouldn't hire help because he had 8 little slaves shivering in barely enough clothes in Da UP. Dangerous machinery and callous men on the far frontier; bullying as the American way. Have we really progressed as a country, or just found myriad ways to keep the victims and empaths isolated from the halls of power?