Comment on California slave labor: Jailed pre-trial detainees work for private firm—for nothing
candyman337@lemmy.world 6 days agoThe US literally doesn’t function as it stands without slave labor. Slavery never stopped, we just do it to the incarcerated, and then changed our laws to rapidly increase the amount of people who are incarcerated. Oh look at that, the incarcerated population is predominantly minorities, wonder why that is.
shalafi@lemmy.world 5 days ago
You’re missing the forest for the trees. Enslaved prisoners are nothing compared to the economic impact of enslaved immigrants, small potatoes. But I think I see where you’re going with this, small potatoes at the moment, yes?
I’m assuming the game plan is to turn immigrants, legal or otherwise, into prisoners so we can work them for free. But that plan doesn’t make sense on it’s face!
Feeding and housing prisoners is far more expensive than letting employers slide with paying immigrants chicken change and letting them fend for themselves. Some dude from Honduras is on his own to rent a room, feed himself, get his own healthcare, and no guards! Can’t get my head around it.
mogranja@lemmy.world 4 days ago
In the immigrant situation, there is no middleman between the employer and the immigrant. The only one profiting off the prisoner situation is the middlemen.