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There are no human characters in “Badlands,” only expendable mechanical representatives of a megacorporation bent on bringing the known universe to heel.

“They’re afraid if they do that, the boss, whoever he or she is, will consider them less productive or therefore more expendable,” he says.

CEO Lourenco Goncalves says his inability to acquire US Steel and pair the plant’s output with US Steel’s new Big River steel mill in Arkansas leaves the iron ore plant expendable.

Scam centre staff run the "whole gamut", from expendable grunts held in slave-like conditions to skilled programmers working for high salaries, said veteran Myanmar expert David Scott Mathieson, a former Human Rights Watch monitor.

It’s an assault on environmental justice that tells Californians their health is expendable.