17$ for 136 hours is insane even by third world standards. Death to America

    • PortugueseDragon [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      No extra steps necessary, it's slavery and it's explicitly legal in that hellhole

      • Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida [he/him]
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        9 months ago

        Yep. Then they obfuscate it with legal language and technicalities like giving the guy a trinket wage. Hence the extra steps.

        • Ithorian [comrade/them]
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          9 months ago

          The token wage isn't even an extra step, it just makes it not chattel slavery. But the level of freedom prisoners have is actually worse then most chattel slavery.

      • Quexotic [none/use name]
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        9 months ago

        https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-origins-of-policing-in-the-united-states/

        Don't forget this piece of the puzzle.

        • Rom [he/him]
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          9 months ago

          lmao "modern police aren't exactly identical to police in the 1870s, therefore we rate this mixed"

          Patrols in the northern U.S. also became useful for breaking up labor strikes before they became too destructive (Marxist political historian Eric Hobsbawm referred to the mechanisms of violence and destruction of property to agitate for better working conditions as "collective bargaining by riot") and these services became increasingly utilized as the country became more populated and conditions simultaneously grew more difficult for the United States' restive economic underclasses.

          Once class traitors, always class traitors. acab