Rinsing also helps remove arsenic: https://health.osu.edu/wellness/exercise-and-nutrition/how-to-reduce-arsenic-in-rice

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You beat me to it! Fighting for the billions spent on dividends and stock buybacks is how workers will reclaim the surplus they generate for the company and win meaningful raises. That said nobody deserves compensation of tens or hundreds of millions of dollars per year, so I agree with others that cutting ceo pay is an important symbolic victory, even if it’s a drop in the bucket of money flowing through the corporation.