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That's why the prefix "modern day" is added. Being worked to the bone while getting paid barely enough to survive affords only a very theoretical freedom and c
by _cenw 3y ago
That's why the prefix "modern day" is added.
Being worked to the bone while getting paid barely enough to survive affords only a very theoretical freedom and capacity for personal development.
We know this from every UBI pilot ever ran: People do start businesses and better their own situation if you remove them from the threat of poverty and homelessness.
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- tasuki 3y ago> That's why the prefix "modern day" is added. This is unfair to actual modern day slaves. Have you missed the following part? > millions of people who were (and still are!) treated as literal chattel to be bought, sold, separated from family, mutilated, raped and killed at a whim. If you're comparing the plight of Amazon workers to actual slaves, you're playing down the plight of actual slaves.
- lolinder 3y agoWhat you describe is accurate and terrible, but it isn't slavery. There are actual people in the world today who are treated as literal property. That is modern-day slavery, we need a different word to describe the plight of a free person who is unable to get out of a cycle of poverty.
- bitcurious 3y agoIn absolute terms are more “modern day” slaves than at any point in time. Actual slaves, treated as property, raped, beaten, worked to death. They don’t work in Amazon. https://amp.theguardian.com/news/2019/feb/25/modern-slavery-trafficking-persons-one-in-200 https://amp.theguardian.com/news/2019/feb/25/modern-slavery-...