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The huge profits and profound suffering of the Manila Galleons
- eevilspock 10y agoSo exploitation begat exploitation?
- coldcode 10y agoThe value of human life is still measured in many places by how much profit can be extracted from them; thankfully more people realize how terrible it is to value money over the people necessary to create it. Even in the US chicken is often butchered by indentured illegals in deplorable conditions. While some things have changed for the better in the modern world some things remain the same.
- zyxley 10y agoNitpicking, but: "Unauthorized" is better terminology than "illegal", given that deportation is an administrative process rather than a civil or criminal one.