The US uses slave labour
Even outside of prison labour too. Didn't Nestle get caught using child slaves a couple years ago?
this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2025
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Nestlé got taken to court over using child slave labor and the US Supreme Court ruled child slaves in other countries were not protected under the constitution and companies weren't liable for things that didn't happen on US soil or didn't involve US citizens.
Evil
I don't know if this is a thing in the US but in Denmark I've seen prison/slave labour being advertised as something positive, like you would for an organic or "fair trade" product, like prison/slave labour is some kind of charity to be supported by ethics-conscious consumers. When you buy or seell a sun chair emblazoned with "Made by prisoners in Danish prisons" in big bold letters you're proud of what you're doing.
Danish prison workers have more rights than the american unprisoned worker
I think that’s a British company but fair play. And same shit, different smell.
Edit: “same” was missing.
They’re actually Swiss but yeah you get it
Thanks for the clarification
Also the US is one of the biggest prison labor exploiters in the world.
I know for a fact that southern states use incarcerated people to keep their recycling station working. Covid nearly shutdown recycling plants for good because the plants had no budget for real labor, only $25 per day per inmate, which is slave wages.
And now, southern fast food chains are "hiring" incarcerated people to serve fries!
Arbeit Macht Fries
Do you have a source for this?
If you live in the US, most likely your car’s license plate was made by a slave.
The hand wringing over Xinjiang cotton is particularly funny considering the history of the US (and I'm pretty sure prison labor is still used to produce cotton in the US)
And especially since much of the harvesting in Xinjiang is machine harvesting. I think something like 98% of tomato harvesting is doing this way, and other crops have high numbers also.
What happened in US history around the production of cotton?
The transatlantic slave trade?
Was that bad?
I'm sure all those children as young as 13 working in US meat packing plants, slaughterhouses, fast food chains, and factories are definitely there entirely uncoerced, unexploited, and get to keep all of the pittance 'they are paid'. 
That just builds character for those TikTok kids 
: “Oh come on, we’re Americans! Work is just what we do! Don’t tell me
You can’t stand a decent challenge? How are you supposed to prove yourself with that attitude?!”
Work makes Americans free
Oh? What reparations should china pay to those slaves?
We know this isn't true cause if it was china would be an ally
Same thing with the most anti-muslim person I know waxing poetic about the uyghurs.
Like if china was actually genociding Muslims westerners would become fans of China.
Same thing with the most anti-muslim person I know waxing poetic about the uyghurs.
They're all like this, I swear to fucking God. It's like their thought process is: "Killing Muslims is great, but this made up thing from [designated by media as BAD country]? That's the most evil thing ever!"
Same thing they do with LGBT people. They will screech to genocide them all, just for the fun of it….then call for the genocide of non-white people and then tell LGBT people that they should join their oppressor in genociding them because they’re anti-LGBT.
What are you, my older brother?
: “No one lays a finger on him, THAT’S MY JOB!”
Impoverished county use slave labor because Western countries own means of production.
Then Western companies buy those products and make profit selling to Western nations. Yet the country of origin is bad and the west is blameless.
How do I know China uses slave labor? The richest people in the world that have lied to me about everything told me so.
After the "China is genociding Muslims for no reason" debacle that the liberals made up you would think people would be more skeptical of anti-China rhetoric, but Chinese people are also Asian, so I guess you can just make up anything and it counts as indisputable reality.
Most liberals still believe that shit lol
I mean, replacing manufacturing jobs in the US was never a bad idea. The problem is that tariffing the whole fucking world to kingdom come is not a strategy to scale up entire US-based factories from thin air. Furthermore, republicans are inherently opposed to the types of policies that would be required to effectuate real movement in this area.
Plus there's the whole hypocrisy of egg prices being too expensive because Biden invented inflation or whatever the hell their angle is today.
The party trying to roll back child labour laws in their own countries and only mention labour abuse in other countries as a gotcha. Then there are libs that argue the case for immigrants because they do work tantamount to slave labor that is vital in the economy. These games are boring
every accusation a confession
The USA never banned slavery, it is very explicitly still constitutional here
Cool. Every single bozo has been demanding everyone under the age of 40 do the right thing^TM^ and work shitty manufacturing/farmworking jobs for damn near free. Oh, and if you have even the slightest bit of neurodiversity, the same society that has mocked and belittled you your entire life looks at you to be the guy that works these slave labor jobs all out of the kindness of your heart.
And I’m not even talking about people who are directly coerced like prisoners who are a legalized form of slavery in the modern day.