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I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Are you suggesting we should not criticize our employers when they do things we don't like? Should we not complain when

I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Are you suggesting we should not criticize our employers when they do things we don't like? Should we not complain when a company aids foreign censorship or hides from the public masses the true nature of its data collection? And in truth its hard to live today without participating in some atrocity, and is that very idea not worth discussing? The gasoline in your car came at great costs both past and future, the cops keep killing innocent people, the US has more slaves now than it did at the peak of the slave trade, we don't own our data and governments are in the collection game, and on and on. There's plenty worth speaking out against.

chii 7y ago
> the US has more slaves now than it did at the peak of the slave trade i find that highly implausible. Unless you're equating "wage" slavery to chattel slavery.
- TaylorAlexander 7y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_Stat... Slavery is still legally allowed in the United States as punishment for a crime, and business is booming. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/23/prisoner-speak-out-american-slave-labor-strike https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/23/prison... https://www.democracynow.org/2018/9/20/from_convict_labor_to_private_prisons https://www.democracynow.org/2018/9/20/from_convict_labor_to... https://theintercept.com/2018/01/14/florida-prison-strike-unpaid-labor-brutal-conditions/ https://theintercept.com/2018/01/14/florida-prison-strike-un...