Slavery is legal in the States. They just need to put you in a prison first.
What happens if you refuse to work? Are they allowed to punish you in any way?
Yes. They cut you off from all human contact. Feed you the most bland food in a bar form literally called nutrabars. Lights are kept on 24 hours a day and you're left in that place for as long as you refuse to work. Solitary confinement is no longer legal in most places but luckily restricted housing, segregated housing, and special or intensive management are the exact same thing but are completely legal still.
Oh you want to see other people and get fresh air? Guess you're willing to work now?
In addition to what the other guy said, the parole board also looks upon it unfavorably. You don't want to be a slave? Well then, for your "bad attitude" and "lack of rehabilitation," get ready to serve your whole sentence instead of only half of it.
They're allowed to do whatever their shareholders let them get away with.
Okay, but, also?
Those migrant workers are so superexploited that they were considered cheaper before anti-imigration policies made them too scarce.
Slavery was here the whole time.
Maybe the issue isn't ultimately the immigration laws or the prison complex. Maybe they're just proximate causes, like symptoms of some deeper issue. Maybe it has something to do with greed and exploitation?
Idk just spitballing here
True. Many countries just opt for labour agreements with the origin countries that disadvantages the guest workers.
India’s Labour Agreements with the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: An Assessment
Laws and regulations can only go far to stop private citizens from abusing the weak and helpless, but it is better if they exist, there's a chance they may be enforced.
Typical Americans. They don’t even know slavery is still legal. No wonder nothing changes.
Everything is projection with the US. Accuses others of using slavery, uses it themselves.
It's been that way since the Civil War ended. It was always part of the plan.
So glad to live in a state that fully abolished slavery checks internet a whole almost 4 years ago!
I think California is the only state that is a current initiative to ban prison slavery. It's on the ballot this November and it's important that we vote for it.
Whatchu think wage labor is? Companies lease you for your labor, and can nullify the contract agreement (i.e. fire you) at will. If you work for a wage, you’re a wage slave.
On the one hand, yes, I can see your point.
On the other hand, let's not minimize American prison slavery by saying "we're all slaves". If you strain the definition you can argue all workers under capitalism are enslaved, but even then, some forms of slavery are far more brutal and dehumanizing (and racist. Let's not forget racist) than others.
Yeah, especially since the majority of imprisoned people tend to be non-white (this is an issue with our justice system, I'm absolutely not saying non-whites do more crime, only they're convicted far more often due to a racist system. A great many are innocent.) this will turn into 1 to 1 a facsimile of slavery from yesteryear. Bunch of white landowners leasing cheap labor (suspiciously predominantly non-white) from people who have no other legal options. Gross.
Ah, I never meant to imply that “all slaves are equally treated just as bad”, thereby minimizing the suffering of others.
Of course some forms are far worse than others. And of course we want to help those suffering the most first and foremost.
I meant my comment as a solidarity statement. Not the straw man you crafted, apologies for the misunderstanding.
Slaves can't end their own contract at will.
You people will never understand the difference.
I mean yeah I can leave whenever I want…I can “choose” my master so to speak, but unless I want to starve to death I’m forced to choose a master.
It’s literally just a nicer form of slavery. If you have a gun pointed to your head with the option “choose a master or I pull the trigger”, is that really a choice? I’d argue not.
Slavery never went away. It just became more profitable.
