• militaryintelligence@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    When I did time in 2005 I worked at a cemetery weed-eating for 24 dollars a month. My cellmate worked at the courthouse as a custodian, and some worked at a factory. I can’t call it slavery because we were paid, and not whipped, but it is definitely exploitation

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      11 hours ago

      24 dollars a month. […] we were paid

      10c an hour. I can totally see how this is not slave labor.

      I’ll tell you what made it slave labor: could you quit that job?

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        I want to take up his point. It’s much more like medieval serfdom than slavery. Such as:

        • Shit salary instead of no salary.
        • Can’t me sold.
        • Has rights (more than a slave, less than a free man)

        Although serfs were bound to the land unlike US prisoners where they can be transferred from location to location.