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If your community knowingly depends on slavery then your community probably deserves to collapse
this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2023
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Not community. Economy.
Slavery, Prison labour, migrant labour that you can totally rip off and not pay, and lastly child labour. That's what's propping up the economy at this point..
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This is not a meme…
Once you know how and why was the private prisons created or operate and “earn” their money you would be sad if not depressed…
I recommend watching a documentary on this topic.
 
I'm not disagreeing with you, but you should really at least name a documentary and share some insight that it brings.
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Using underpaid prison labor to deny people access to well-paying jobs, forcing more people into difficult situations.
Which again raises crime, which in turn raises the amount of underpaid prison labor.
See, the system works. Well, not for us.
So they are literally forced labour camps? How can anyone in the US still complain about Russia? (Just as a disclaimer, this is not a defence of Russia. I think the conditions there are terrible, but the US doesn't seem far behind, if at all)
The US has way better propaganda - the marketing strategies invented in the 60s by the nephew of Freud were put to very good use at bypassing people's reasoning and not just at making them feel needs, fears, and short-term endorphine jolts related to products and services being sold.
Also the US has way better circus and more bread than Russia.
Cuz different rule sets apply to different parts of the world. That and the clever naming scheme the US usually applies to make things sound not as bad or marginably better than they actually are.
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IIRC, unless you're lucky enough to have someone outside of jail putting money into your commissary, you kind of have to if you want half decent living conditions.
Want more shampoo or feminine hygiene products? You have to buy them. Want more food than you were alotted? You have to buy it. It even includes things like toothpaste.
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Translation: "But... muh slaves!"
That sounds an awful fucking lot like some of the rationale the confederates used around the time of the civil war.
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The very idea that we have legal, Constitutional slavery still in the US and most people don't know or care is genuinely disturbing.
Oh boy wait until you hear about what the chocolate/coffee and mining industries are doing!
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Pretty much exact argument much of the south made about ending slavery before the american civil war happened..
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Translation: Slavery has always been legal in the US.
To be fair this is hardly a problem unique to western capitalism. Gulag labor in the USSR was widely acknowledged and documented. And there are likewise credible accusations of forced labor (and much worse) in China as well. It's bad in every case, and intellectually honest observers would condemn this practice in every instance.
This isn't capitalism or communism - it's an autocracy and human rights issue. The places with the best criminal justice outcomes these days are generally the "third way socialism" eg Scandinavian model countries which have a blended version of regulated capitalism and wealth redistribution.
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Huh. So US would collapse without slave labour?
Well, actually, yes. Or without migrant labour which they are losing hence the child labour law issues recently. Study harder. You will get it.
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So it's just "we can't abolish slavery because it will hurt all the poor slave-owners" but modernized.
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Private prisons? Seriously, Amurica?
Sounds like slavery with extra steps, cuz it is.
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Oh no, is your community relying on slave labor because capitalism deems it not efficient enough to exist? Boo hoo so sad, better vote pro-slaver again next election, they will surely fix the problem this term.
Using the same excuse slave owners in 1860 used isn't a good look...
But no, we can't plan out and try out a new or better system, because we might hurt poor old capitalism's feelings. Won't somebody think of the billionaires?
Did you intend to post this on a meme c/? Seems like the wrong place
Wonder how many workers in those towns lose their jobs to slave labor from prisons, blame it on immigrants, and vote for demagogues
If that community wants to keep those lucrative prison jobs they need to step up and get incarcerated more.
My brain interpreted the post title being sung to the tune of CREAM by Wu-Tang
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That's why I'm never letting my kids move out. I too enjoy the benefits of slave labor
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