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Corporate America Never Really Quit Forced Labor (www.bloomberg.com)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

They just outsourced it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Its slavery.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Slavery was always inefficient compared to just paying starvation wages and leaning on immigration to replenish the labor pool. Using inmates is a win/win as you still get to pay starvation wages, but now you don't even have to worry about work-place organization, caring and feeding, and it's constitutionally protected.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Wow, did not expect Bloomberg to report on this. At any rate brace for all the comments decrying the end of modern civilization if we actually stopped slavery.