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How is this different from indentured servitude? In any way what so ever? "Free trip to the colonies, in exchange for a chunk of your output for the next 20 y
by count 13y ago
How is this different from indentured servitude? In any way what so ever?
"Free trip to the colonies, in exchange for a chunk of your output for the next 20 years."
- MJR 13y agoFor a free trip to the colonies, you paid with all of your output for the next 20 years(or longer) - not just 3%.
- dnautics 13y agofractional servitude is still servitude.
- dnautics 13y agothis is exactly what I think. It's bad enough that college loans are non-dischargeable (and therefore probably in violation of the 14th amendment). Now, the wage garnishment were voluntarily terminatable, that's another story.
- ceejayoz 13y agoIndentured servants weren't allowed to wind up unemployed or to pick a less lucrative career than the person they were indentured to might prefer.
- dangrossman 13y ago> How is this different from indentured servitude? If the state raised a 2% income tax on everyone to pay for free college education, instead of a 3% income tax on students getting a free college education, would that also be indentured servitude? Are all taxpayers indentured servants of the state?
- count 13y agoYou can leave taxes behind by moving / etc. You won't be allowed to leave this behind in any sense.
- notdrunkatall 13y agoWell, how is the current system different from indentured servitude? You can't discharge school loans in bankruptcy, so...