Whenever I learn interesting things in school, my childlike instincts kick in to go and tell my mother whatever new thing I’ve just been taught. After explaining to her what the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire was, she told me that I’d already learned about the tragedy in high school, and that I had told her about it. It was beyond odd to realize I had forgotten it, because watching the video I was so shocked. Even so, learning about the other garment factory that had caught on fire in Bangladesh and almost suffered the exact story that took place in 1911 was beyond bizarre. I’ve always known the phrase about history repeating itself, however in this case it seemed even more scarily coincidental because it was almost exactly one hundred years later. How did we as a society even allow this disaster to repeat itself if after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire there were laws put in place to help advocate for work safety and prevent similar tragedies from happening in the future? Another concept that I could barely grasp was the wages the workers in Bangladesh were getting paid in 2010 was a measly $0.28 cents an hour, which is 1/10th of the U.S. wage almost one hundred years ago. When they tried to demand better wages for the terrible conditions they were hosed down in the street like animals. It’s just so unbelievable that this happened, again and the outcome didn’t even have benefits this time.