Inmates do billions of dollars of work for companies and governments each year. A landmark lawsuit alleges many are being kept in prison because the business is just too good.
  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Wow, did not expect Bloomberg to report on this. At any rate brace for all the comments decrying the end of modern civilization if we actually stopped slavery.

  • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Slavery was always inefficient compared to just paying starvation wages and leaning on immigration to replenish the labor pool. Using inmates is a win/win as you still get to pay starvation wages, but now you don’t even have to worry about work-place organization, caring and feeding, and it’s constitutionally protected.