Text of the 13th Amendment of the US constitution that conveniently allows slavery for the imprisoned.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Rich countries were practically built on the backs of cheap/slave labor. Acting like this is a new development is just outright gaslighting from the likes of the Rupert fucking Murdoch owned shitrag that is the Wall Street Journal.
USA literally ran coups in the global south to keep access to cheap labor down there, and now that China is becoming “troublesome” the US is right back to exploiting cheap labor from South America.
Gee, I wonder why the US has the largest per capita prison population on the planet? It couldn’t be that addiction to cheap labor could it??
I think we do have a problem with too many people in prison. I think private prisons are bad. I don’t think it’s unreasonable that you have to work for free while in prison … and I don’t think it’s unreasonable that you get paid next to nothing for that work.
I think it’s fair to say outside of the private prison world, everyone would rather these folks never went to prison and they were earning a good living with a normal job and paying taxes.
USA literally ran coups in the global south to keep access to cheap labor down there, and now that China is becoming “troublesome” the US is right back to exploiting cheap labor from South America.
This and everything you say about foreign exploitation, I more or less agree with.
Uhmmmm… Becoming??
Text of the 13th Amendment of the US constitution that conveniently allows slavery for the imprisoned.
Rich countries were practically built on the backs of cheap/slave labor. Acting like this is a new development is just outright gaslighting from the likes of the Rupert fucking Murdoch owned shitrag that is the Wall Street Journal.
USA literally ran coups in the global south to keep access to cheap labor down there, and now that China is becoming “troublesome” the US is right back to exploiting cheap labor from South America.
Gee, I wonder why the US has the largest per capita prison population on the planet? It couldn’t be that addiction to cheap labor could it??
I think we do have a problem with too many people in prison. I think private prisons are bad. I don’t think it’s unreasonable that you have to work for free while in prison … and I don’t think it’s unreasonable that you get paid next to nothing for that work.
Only 2/3 of prisoners work and 80% of that prison labor is basically “keep the prison running” https://www.aclu.org/news/human-rights/captive-labor-exploitation-of-incarcerated-workers
I think it’s fair to say outside of the private prison world, everyone would rather these folks never went to prison and they were earning a good living with a normal job and paying taxes.
This and everything you say about foreign exploitation, I more or less agree with.