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Our civilisations also kept slaves for millennia.
by npoc 2y ago
Our civilisations also kept slaves for millennia.
- megous 2y agoThey still do, mechanisms and messaging are just smarter.
- FrustratedMonky 2y agoNot sure there isn't a group bringing it back. Outlawing being poor/homeless, so the poor can be arrested just for not having housing. Or for debts. Then, making laws that inmates can be provided to corporations to work. Boom, some slavery.
- robertlagrant 2y agoIt's not being brought back. There is slavery today[0]. [0] https://www.antislavery.org/slavery-today/modern-slavery https://www.antislavery.org/slavery-today/modern-slavery
- FrustratedMonky 2y agoNot sure the US will realize it until everyone has an uncle or cousin working as an indentured servant in a prison workforce. Then MAGA will be like "hey, wait a minute, this seems kind of like slavery. Isn't that something we stopped teaching in school".
- pfannkuchen 2y agoI’m really confused why congress doesn’t outlaw prison labor of this kind. No one supports it anywhere on the political spectrum. Are the companies who profit from it really that influential?
- robertlagrant 2y agoOur civilisations also drank water for millennia.
- viccis 2y agoI'm aware of the is-ought problem with my statement, but my point is that that is the role calves play when we want cow dairy products. The problem with it as it exists today is the barbarous nature of factory farming.