• banazir@lemmy.ml
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    In the US, slavery is legal for prisoners. The US has the largest prison population in the world. This is not a coincidence.

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        From a Billionaire’s perspective, a millionaire is a pauper. A regular working person might as well be a slave. They work hard for much of their lives for pennies, and are terrified THAT will go away.

        And modern wage slavery also carries the improved advantage that the employer no longer has to provide housing, food, or medical care. The slaves have to pay for all that out of their pennies.

        We’re ALL already slaves.

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          So the main difference between slavery and work is you get paid less, and don’t have the option of being permanently unemployed and homeless.

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            Are you being for real right now?

            You are aware that the thirteenth amendment (the one that abolishes slavery) explicitly allows for slavery to continue “as punishment”.

            This isn’t like some weird leftist take, slavery is quite literally legal in US prisons.

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              19 hours ago

              I don’t get why my comment is so disliked, I don’t feel I said anything controversial, I’m basically just saying that modern day work is slavery.