Wonder how many workers in those towns lose their jobs to slave labor from prisons, blame it on immigrants, and vote for demagogues
Thank goodness I had to say the pledge every day in school or I might have forgotten that we actually have liberty and justice for all while reading this
My brain interpreted the post title being sung to the tune of CREAM by Wu-Tang
That's slavery/indentured servitude forcing someone into a contract. How is that Adam Smith capitalism? It's just old school wealthy upper class exploiting people.
if they'd collapse without it then good riddance
This doesn’t have to be on or off. Don’t think “shut down”, think “draw down over time”. So instead of an immediate collapse, you get improvement over time.
If your business depends on underpaid labor to profit (including slave labor or bonded servitude) then your business model sucks, and your business should fail.
And if you think you should be allowed to underpay your workers to keep your business afloat, then you're an immoral capitalist and you should be ashamed.
what would happen if we cut out the middle man that's making a shit ton of money on this?
Starting to wonder why Russia doesn't have them.
You don't need to dress up your slave labour as "prison" when you can just have out and open slave labour.
