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militaryintelligence@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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 but it is definitely exploitation

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ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

24 dollars a month. […] we were paid

10c an hour. I can totally see how this is not slave labor.

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- olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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- militaryintelligence@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Yes, but I lost privileges
  
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  - zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    So, you get punished if you quit. That makes it not voluntary.
    
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dexa_scantron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Forced labor is still slavery even if you’re paid and not whipped.

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- BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  All labor is slavery in a system that doesn’t allow the laborer to keep the value they create.
  
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cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
“paid”

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