• ItsAFake
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    9 months ago

    He does solely pay them in cocoa beans and I’m pretty sure you can get high off of cocoa beans if you consume enough and oompa loompas are dramatically smaller than humans, so yeah he’s paying them in drugs to live and work in his factory, after he smuggled them from Loompaland.

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        9 months ago

        That’s what Willy Wonka’s PR department would like you to think.

      • Sethayy@sh.itjust.works
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        9 months ago

        In the Depp one its a bit that and a bit that they worship the beans, so he being a smart businessman saw that as free labour