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People working minimum wage at fast food restaurants are not "essentially slaves".

• ta1243 2y ago
  McDonalds pays the "owners" of the prisoners, not the prisoners. Prisoners who don't take this "opportunity" to be sold out to mcdonalds get punished.
• consteval 2y ago
  They're prisoners compelled to work. If they don't work, they won't get parole. If they call out or otherwise don't work their 40 hours, they get reprimanded. They lose "good time" - no phone calls, no visits, no outside time, etc. They don't earn minimum wage - much less, because the prison garnishes half of the wage for the opportunity to be forced to work. Parole rate in Georgia is about 8%, and it's a tough on crime state. Their parole rate should be around 80%, but it's not. Getting 25 years for possession or other non-violent crimes, you have no choice but to participate in the South's modern-day slavery.