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Define: Slavery

• nkassis 11y ago
  Slavery requires coercion. If it's by choice it's different but there are other laws under which this falls that prevent it to avoid abuse. For example in the US, you cannot employ a intern for free that does work your company might profit from (not a lawyer so I might have that slightly skewed).
• dasmoth 11y ago
  Slavery seems to go rather beyond accepting unpaid labour.
• dragonwriter 11y ago
  That's not necessarily completely inaccurate, but terse to the point of opacity: the problem posed by unpaid labor in support of for-profit efforts is that if it is allowed, it is very easy for it to become a necessary prerequisite (e.g., as something you need to have to be considered) for paid labor in the same industry, which, if it expands to many industry, makes it potentially a matter of economic coercion to accept unpaid jobs as a means of gaining potential (but not guaranteed) access to paid jobs.