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California Voted for Slavery (lemmy.world)

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[–] surewhynotlem 8 points 3 weeks ago

Teach you how forcing someone to do labor and be treated like a financial asset is slavery?

Well that's easy. You open up your English textbook, you look up the word slavery, and you look at the definition.

Here, I'll do the work for you:

"plural noun: slaves 1. a person who is forced to work for and obey another and is considered to be their property; an enslaved person."

Or do you mean, how is this situation slavery? It's also pretty simple. The American prison system is for-profit. The government is incentivized to arrest more people because they have minimum quotas to meet when putting people in prison. Otherwise they pay extra on the contracts. The prison employees are considered assets in this situation. And those prison employees are put to work with no or little pay.

But I do understand. English is a very complicated language and the intricacies of the US prison system are not well known in other countries, I imagine. Thank you for asking for help.