• HorseRabbit@lemmy.sdf.org
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      3 months ago

      Weird and racist.

      Also doesn't the US actually have a vast slave labour force? Aren't 1 in 15 black men in for profit prisons making fucking licence plates or pudding or whatever.

      • AnarchoAnarchist [none/use name]
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        3 months ago

        https://maltajusticeinitiative.org/12-major-corporations-benefiting-from-the-prison-industrial-complex-2/

        Making frozen McDonald's hamburgers, working in call centers for Verizon and Sprint, making jeans and fancy panties, and taking reservations for American airlines.

        Not to mention the work farms that produce food, raise and process cattle.

        A typical American, over the course of a week, consumes several products and utilizes several services that are reliant on prison slave labor.

    • l0tusc0bra@lemmygrad.ml
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      3 months ago

      It's true, I'm one of the slaves. They have us towing giant blocks of granite through the Gobi desert to make a 500 ft tall monument to Xi.

    • darkernations@lemmygrad.ml
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      3 months ago

      A lot of us here were liberals (both "left wing" and right wing) once.

      Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990–2015 (60 min read)

      https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095937802200005X

      Rich countries rely on a large net appropriation of resources from the global South. Drain from the South is worth over $10 trillion per year, in Northern prices. The South’s losses outstrip their aid receipts by a factor of 30. Unequal exchange is a major driver of underdevelopment and global inequality. The impact of excess resource consumption in the North is offshored to the South.

      Understanding Unequal Exchange: How does trade imperialism affect the global working class? (20 min read)

      https://anticonquista.com/2021/05/19/understanding-unequal-exchange-how-does-trade-imperialism-affect-the-global-working-class/

      "You cannot resist for very long a truth you discover for yourself." - NC