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?
And sadly, it’s perfectly legal according to the 13th Amendment.
The last rational thing Kanye said before his handlers gassed him into full incoherence.
Imagine thinking that Nazi was the first person to think this, and to laude it as some prophetic thought. God damn, dude.
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.
Typical Americans. They don’t even know slavery is still legal. No wonder nothing changes.
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They aren’t a remnant. The constitution explicitly states that slavery is ALLOWED AS A PUNISHMENT.
What country has the most prisoners again? 🤔
That’s probably why we criminalize more and more symptoms of desperation, simultaneously creating more conditions of despair, tbh.
Everything is projection with the US. Accuses others of using slavery, uses it themselves.
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.
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.
People in cooperatives are slaves? To whom exactly?
That’s like living as another slave of a dictatorship, versus living as a free person in a democracy. In context I think they’re talking about typical (dictatorship) corporations.
He is most likely talking about the typical corporations, but it doesn’t mean he’s right about pointing the finger at wages. Wage labor isn’t the cause of wage slavery and neither is the existence of a company. It’s the authoritarian company structure, which is systemic to capitalism, that is causing an unfair power dynamic between the employer and employee. That power dynamic is what creates wage slaves.
As far as wages are concerned you can get a wage and not be a wage slave. It comes down to whether the company is with an authoritarian (capitalistic) or a democratic (socialist) structure.
