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Thread Does the US practice slavery? Read some facts be for answering "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime" "The United States has the largest prison population in the world, and the highest per-capita incarceration rate" 1
"blacks receive sentences that are almost 10 percent longer than those of comparable whites arrested for the same crimes" "The average of the minimum daily wages paid to incarcerated workers for non-industry prison jobs is now 86 cents" 2
Firefighting prisoners "The prisoners earn between $2.90 and $5.12 per day, plus an additional $1 per hour during active emergency for their potentially life-threatening efforts. The firefighters they work alongside earn an average of $91,000" 3
"Starbucks has used prison labor to package coffee sold in its stores. Prisoners may earn as little as 23 cents an hour" "The US makes up less than 5% of the world's population but has nearly 25% of all the prisoners in the world" 4
"15% of state prisoners at year-end 2015 had been convicted of a drug offense" "47% of federal" "A report from the Prison Policy Initiative found that the cost of 15-minute phone calls for prisoners could exceed $20" 5
"It's a billion-dollar industry that many Americans know nothing about. Over 50 prominent American corporations have been exposed for using prison laborers" 6
"African Americans are more likely than white Americans to be arrested; once arrested, they are more likely to be convicted" "African-American adults are 5.9 times as likely to be incarcerated than whites and Hispanics are 3.1 times as likely." 7
The injustices with our justice system go on and on but to me one thing is clear, slavery is alive and well in the US it just has a new name, Penal labor. So does the US practice slavery? End
Work creates wealth for business. If amt pay makes you live in hardship & there are no better jobs you qualify for, you’re stuck with poverty wages, that is wage slavery. In prison or out. Target and Wallmart are multi billion dollar corporations. They could pay $25 an hour &
still be a multi billion dollar company. Amazon, Jeff Bezos is approaching a trillionaire. Just recently raised wages to a meager $15. He wants to leave this impoverished gutted country behind and live in Mars domes. I used to not have radical thoughts, but if he does that,
Another discussion about raising wages that should have happened in this country is one about efficiency and technology. You people who work at computer jobs. If this were the 1970s right now, there would be a room full of people all doing the work that you alone do now.
Maybe a couple rooms full of people if you think about Microsoft office + Excel + Photo shop + an architectural drafting program all on the same computer. ONE COMPUTER. Used to be room after room of big cabinet sized main frames with giant wheels of magnetic tape spinning.
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