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In reply to the discussion: Far Too Many Businesses Would Embrace Slavery [View all]moondust
(20,101 posts)35. Too many morally bankrupt.
For hundreds of years.
I fully expected some movement in that direction during the morally bankrupt IQ45 years, spreading beyond prison labor into the private sector. I vaguely recall some suggestion of that in Oklahoma or some other deep red state but don't know what came of it.
I suppose it would be okay as long as you tear gas your way to a church and hold up a Bible for the cameras once in a while.
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It's the sad truth. They would use slaves if they could. Chains, poverty, whatever it takes to ...
marble falls
Oct 2021
#1
During the war, GM's Opel division was the only heavy industry corporation that retained day ...
marble falls
Oct 2021
#56
Ford used to pass out copies of the 'Protocols of the Elder's of Zion' ...
marble falls
Oct 2021
#64
That one totally frosts me. Prisoners get no more than $.50/hr. and the products sell for ...
marble falls
Oct 2021
#57
Prison labor IS technically slavery which is still legal in US outline in the last 2 sentences of ..
uponit7771
Oct 2021
#7
Remember AZ Gov. Jan Brewer's "Papers Please" law aimed at jailing brown people?
OMGWTF
Oct 2021
#34
That's what they did after the Civil War and it was constitutional under the 13th Amendment.
marie999
Oct 2021
#49
Actually the slave owners found that sharecropping was a better deal for them.
keithbvadu2
Oct 2021
#9
The fact that we need child labor laws tell you all you need to know about the Capitalism system
spike jones
Oct 2021
#16
Is there any doubt that low paid workers especially undocumented immigrants are the slave class.
Pepsidog
Oct 2021
#37
Slavery would suck for some of them, because they'd have to provide adequate food and health care ..
dawg
Oct 2021
#47
I have long been of the opinion that what finally put the kibosh on formal slavery in America
misanthrope
Oct 2021
#58