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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Meaning it's a one-way ticket. You never really got rid of slavery.

[–] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Correct. Enslaving prisoners was amended into our Constitution. Fear of that enslavement keeps most people in line.

[–] Flipper@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

You'd hate to hear where law's like loitering is illegal come from.

The idea behind them was basically to book the released slaves and then rent them out to the farms again.

Take an hour to watch this to get all of it.