• Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    I didn’t mean “This is like slavery”, I meant that literally the US Constitution specifically allows for prisoners to be used as slaves.

    • balderdash@lemmy.zip
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      5 days ago

      Yes, I know. The US. has literal slave-labor in prisons and US corporations depend on slave labor overseas. But even workers who are better off are being exploited.