美国：一个工人烧了老板的仓库

Speaking of working and making money, let me tell you a very different story.

There was a young man.

He was twenty-nine years old.

He worked in a very big warehouse.

What is a warehouse?

A warehouse is a very very big building.

With many many things inside.

What things?

Toilet paper.

Yes, toilet paper.

Lots and lots of toilet paper.

The kind you use in the bathroom.

How big was this warehouse?

Very very big.

Bigger than a hundred basketball courts.

How much was the toilet paper inside worth?

Five hundred million dollars.

Five hundred million.

That is a very big number.

This warehouse was in America.

In California.

California has a city called Ontario.

Not Ontario in Canada.

It's Ontario in California.

Near Los Angeles.

This young man worked in this warehouse.

Every day he moved things.

Moved toilet paper.

Put it on trucks.

Very tiring.

The work was very hard.

But the money he earned was very little.

He said: "My money is not enough to live on."

He said: "I earn too little."

He was very unhappy.

He felt it was unfair.

He worked so hard.

But the money was too little.

The more he thought about it, the angrier he got.

Then one night.

He did a very bad thing.

He started a fire.

He used a lighter.

He lit the toilet paper.

Toilet paper burns very easily.

Because it's made of paper.

The fire got big right away.

Very fast.

Extremely fast.

The whole warehouse was on fire.

While it burned, he used his phone to record video.

Yes, he recorded a video.

He posted the video online.

What did he say in the video?

He said: "All you had to do was pay us enough to live."

He also said: "Your inventory is gone."

Then the whole warehouse burned.

All of it burned.

Five hundred million dollars worth of stuff.

Gone in one night.

The warehouse roof collapsed too.

The big trucks parked outside also burned.

But there is good news.

Nobody was hurt.

There were twenty people working in the warehouse at the time.

They all ran out.

Everyone was fine.

This is the most important thing.

The police caught him very quickly.

Why so fast?

Because he recorded the video himself.

He posted it online himself.

Everyone saw it.

The police saw it too.

So it was very easy to find him.

After he was caught.

He made a phone call to someone.

He said he felt like a certain person.

What person?

A person named Mangione.

Who is Mangione?

Mangione is a person from another case.

He killed the boss of an insurance company.

Many Americans think insurance companies are bad.

So some people think Mangione is a hero.

This young man who burned the warehouse thought he was also a hero.

But he is not a hero.

He broke the law.

Arson is a very serious crime.

He might go to jail for many many years.

At most, maybe for life.

This story makes people think about many things.

First, did what he said make sense?

Low wages is a real problem.

Many people feel they don't earn enough.

This is true.

Second, but burning things is not the answer.

If you're unhappy, you can speak up.

You can tell your boss.

You can find a new job.

You can go to court.

But you cannot start a fire.

Starting a fire can hurt other people.

This time nobody was hurt.

But next time might be different.

So this story tells us.

It's okay to be angry.

But don't do stupid things.

Doing stupid things only makes your life worse.

It won't get better.

He is now in prison.

No wages.

No freedom.

He has nothing left.

This is the saddest part.