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Raise Wages? No Need — McDonald’s Is Hiring Inmates Instead (jacobin.com)

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[–] militaryintelligence@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

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

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

24 dollars a month. [...] we were paid

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?

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I want to take up his point. It's much more like medieval serfdom than slavery. Such as:

Shit salary instead of no salary.
Can't me sold.
Has rights (more than a slave, less than a free man)

Although serfs were bound to the land unlike US prisoners where they can be transferred from location to location.

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