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When I did time in 2005 I worked at a cemetery weed-eating for 24 dollars a month. My cellmate worked at the courthouse as a custodian, and some worked at a factory. I can't call it slavery because we were paid, and not whipped, but it is definitely exploitation
10c an hour. I can totally see how this is not slave labor.
I'll tell you what made it slave labor: could you quit that job?
I want to take up his point. It's much more like medieval serfdom than slavery. Such as:
Although serfs were bound to the land unlike US prisoners where they can be transferred from location to location.
Yes, but I lost privileges
So, you get punished if you quit. That makes it not voluntary.
Forced labor is still slavery even if you're paid and not whipped.
All labor is slavery in a system that doesn't allow the laborer to keep the value they create.
"paid"