Comment on Major US corporations threaten to return labor to ‘law of the jungle’
intelisense@lemm.ee 3 months agoOnly now, the police are armed with tanks. I don’t think this will end well…
You can’t violence your way into efficient human labor without repealing the 13th Amendment.
Let’s see if the SCOTUS says that the slavery clause only applies to individual people that congress specifically designates as free, a la the wholly made up rules on the insurrection clause of the 14th amendment.
I’d like to agree with you, but I’d like to note that the 13th amendment of the US constitution specifically states slavery is allowed as a punishment for a crime.
So all you need to do is manufacture laws which make something common criminal and put heavy sanctions on it.
Like say… draconian drug laws around cannabis, or making abortion carry the same sentences as murder. Three strike laws in which you can sentence someone to prison for life for stealing $14.
law.utexas.edu/…/legalized-slavery-in-the-united-…
Thats how the US subsidises labour. Enslaved prisoners.
So you can violence your way into efficient human labour without repealing the 13th amendment. Perhaps there’s a point at which it won’t work anymore, but seems to have worked fine for the past century or so
I’d make the argument that slavery provides a higher quantity of workers, but since it’s against the workers’ wills, it is not as efficient (units of work per unit of time).
They gonna shoot people when production goals aren’t met? I work with several people who are really good at sandbagging and blaming the equipment.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
The only thing the tanks will do is to make everything bloodier than it needs to be. Factories can’t factory if they don’t have workers.
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
Not if companies get their way with replacing humans with AI and automation.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Frankly, that’s is absolutely not happening anytime soon.
DoomsdaySprocket@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
They’ll find that most of the peeps keeping the automation from turning itself inside out are also workers.