They're not slaves, they're prisoners with jobs. /s Basically when it became no longer tenable to deny the fundamental humanity of an enslaved person, we found

They're not slaves, they're prisoners with jobs. /s Basically when it became no longer tenable to deny the fundamental humanity of an enslaved person, we found a way to deprive them of their humanity by criminalizing them. So now we don't have to feel bad for abusing them because they deserve it. It's not slavery, see, it's justice. Or so the argument goes. It's disgusting.