There’s more slavery now than at any time in human history, according to this UN task force.
It makes you wonder, of course, that if our capitalism depends on slave markets… is it really capitalism?
Someone please help me to understand…
The private economy is the main source of the rise, while state-enforced labour counts for one in seven cases of modern slavery, the report adds.
I wonder if mandatory military service counts for “state-enforced labor”
What we have isn’t capitalism, capitalism only works until you add people
True capitalism has never been tried!
Ancaps actually believe this
Let’s see how it works for Argentina.
“Anarcho-Capitalism” sounds like a 4chan attempt at political theory.
How are there high income people in slavery, that doesn’t make sense to me
The UN sponsored report uses a pretty liberal definition of slavery to include things like wage theft (which forces workers to stay at a job until they’re fully compensated), sex trafficking, and domestic servitude where the servant’s documents are confiscated so that they can’t flee.
However, there’s still a hell of a lot whips and chains slavery in Africa and South East Asia. Those slaves serve the excavation and manufacturing industries.
Everybody:
Isn’t using children for slave labor immoral?
Hershey, Nestle, Mars, selling chocolate to Americans:
But is it against the law, though?
If you buy anything grown almost anywhere, it is with slave labor or near-slave labor. So many of the crops grown in the US use child labor and labor for very very low wages, low enough that it may as well be slavery.
Fucking love key and peele
I like that Lemmy is a small enough community that I know exactly which post and which comments in that post this is about. 🤣
look at my lips : not illegal
you’re hurting my eardrums…
You think the US is bad try 10 years of forced labor in a Russian chemical factory with little protection from the chemicals.
Also U.S.: Don’t worry, all will be forgiven if you are able to get our space program off the ground! 📎
is like spying on kids
US constitution is not a moral or criminal or other type of code for all cases of light. It does not forbid, for example shoplifting or driving on red light.
It’s technically not slave labor since prisoners usually get paid (less than minimum wage, but still counts).
Is it immoral? Don’t they “owe a debt to society”?
Uh yeah so uh
That green leafy thing
If you inhale itFIFTY FUCKING YEARS BUCKO
and other totally arbitrary justifications for putting a drastically skewed selection of your citizens into enforced labor
So the problem is that those people shouldn’t be in prison, not that prisoners should be expected to pay a debt to society.
You misunderstand.
I’m pointing out how, when prisoners can be monetized, laws will be invented to maximize profit.
List of U.S. politicians and how much they are being paid by for-profit prisonsI’m not misunderstanding you, I disagree with you.
But society isn’t profiting from the labor. It is private businesses, right? There is such a thing in the US as communal or public service as sentence for a crime I am sure but from what I gathered prison labor is not that.
I’d be morally okay if a certain amount of hours of public service would be part of a sentence for crimes which left a debt to society. Such as tax fraud or destruction of public property etc.
Fully agreed. Stuff like, you have to work for the government park corp and clean up parks as your job for the next year is a form of sentencing I could agree with. I don’t agree with random company 400 getting to use you as a slave being your sentence.
Yes it is immoral, they should be rehabilitated instead
But society also needs to fix its dystopia because some crimes where committed out of necessity for example stealing food when you’d otherwise die and their was no way of getting free food
Crimes of necessity don’t need to he rehabilitated because people are forced to commit them due to their current living position
Edit:
https://lemmy.ca/comment/5348520
This comment also applies as well
Lol the person that posted this is probably using an iPhone which is made with slave labor in China. Stop acting like USA is the only country using capitalism to get cheap products. So many of you on Lemmy are crazy about bashing the US when every first world country is 100% in the same boat.
Uneducated and trying to spread propaganda to hate a single country when you’re all guilty as fuck. Your clothes your electronics your beauty products all made with suffering and yet y’all hypocrites still need your Nikes and shitty iPhones/pretty much any electronic let’s be real. This is exactly what the rich fuckers that run the show want…idiots like OP.
For ome reason many people on Lemmy specifically act like this I’ve noticed which is perfect for their agenda to make us all hate each other based on where we live as if we had a choice where we were born and as if we could even really do anything about the corruption that’s just right out in public. None y’all wanna be the Martyr so stop acting self righteous.
I think people are allowed to say that slavery is bad even if we benefit from slave labor. It’s not like shit is labeled, and even if a product is free from one form of slavery there are still so many types across the world it would take a global effort to get rid of them all. Isn’t it better to at least acknowledge the problem?
- China is capitalism with beastly grin
- The OP doesn’t have to live in USofA
- The OP doesn’t have to have glass brick
We’re making fun of USA and pointing things like this out because Muricans always tout themselves as some beacon of freedom and democracy and whatnot. The land of the free my ass.
Oh no! Anyway…
