They rounded up hundreds of union members without formal charges and put them in a filthy, vermin-infested warehouse without sanitation services for a year.
"The city would soon drown in garbage crawling with rats and every kind of vermin," Aaron says of a world without the zabaleen.
Unless she was planning to work in a shop selling vermin, I imagine she'll get through life without needing to go on a programme.
We assume our homes are built with solid structure, without gaping holes to allow insects and vermin to infiltrate.
That's 47% higher than the tax rate paid by its wealthy neighbor Grosse Pointe, where the median household income is more than three times as high as Detroit's and where, it goes without saying, there are most likely no vermin carcasses under the desks.
On top of shooting a weekend on the commune, she talked to VICE about what it's like to live life without electricity, and gave us some hot tips on how to keep vermin from sneaking into your cabin.
The building harbored vermin.
Vermin infest, not humans.
