Comment on Prison slavery
ICastFist@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
No, the way they got people to work was by enslaving them; then by “it’s not slavery, you just can’t leave without my permission” serfdom; then by forcing rural families to migrate to cities because mr landowner bought everything (or killed the owners), so that the factories could pay poverty level salaries; then, when workers got too riled up, by outsourcing work to wherever people were desperate enough to accept 10% of the pay.
zarathustrad@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I think you missed the part just prior to slavery where we had to work to avoid starving to death naked and alone exposed the elements.
ICastFist@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
I guess, but that wasn’t the kind of labor that made you wish for death, either yours or somebody else’s
zarathustrad@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Or rather, people have the urge to survive and will do whatever it takes.
Whether that’s the hard labor of small groups subsistence level existing, for the reward of not starving and suffering the elements. Or putting sandwiches in a bag for a one room apartment and a cell phone.