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• peacepath@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  workers at the charge of public expenses, working for the benefits of private companies 😍

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  • beejboytyson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ugh, that’s dystopian.

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    • peacepath@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Don’t worry, it can’t become true…

      en.wikipedia.org/…/Penal_labor_in_the_United_Stat…

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• WoodScientist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I see it as a direct continuation of:

  Slavery->Sharecropping and Jim Crow->mass incarceration

  Slavery never ended. The name just changed to be more polite, with a fig leaf of freedom and free will. Additionally we realized two things:

  1. It’s more economical to hold slaves in large central facilities than dispersed.

  2. The best way to fight abolitionism is to convince the populace that the slaves deserve it.

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  • EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You see it as an extension of salary because that’s exactly what happened.

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• CADmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yup they wanted to get “those people” off the streets.

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