We found a fleet of indentured servants, thousands of them in California.http://rigged.usatoday.com
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At least 60 companies use the same lease-to-own scheme to trap their workers into debt and sometimes forced labor.https://usat.ly/2rMkZ01
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First they tricked poor, uneducated immigrants to pay $100,000 for brand-new trucks that they could never afford.pic.twitter.com/prqAwfM20N
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Then companies used the weekly debt and threats to force guys like Sam Talavera to work up to 20 hours a day behind the wheel.pic.twitter.com/BVRtT5ZkhA
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Some bosses actually locked their truckers out of the parking lot to make them work past exhaustion.pic.twitter.com/V6uqGpyL4E
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Drivers can take home pennies on the hour, or even owe their boss come Friday. Sam Talavera has a check for 67 cents for one week's work.pic.twitter.com/yy7qwYMO3r
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Like a lot of guys, Sam Talavera went bankrupt. Others got foreclosed on. They can't feed their families.
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They were promised a truck. But we found hundreds of drivers who were fired, sometimes just for getting sick or going to a funeral.pic.twitter.com/V74KASshiD
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When Sam Talavera got fired, his boss kept the truck and the $78,000 he had paid toward owning it.
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The experts we talked to came back to the same analogy again and again: sharecropping.http://rigged.usatoday.com
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@BrettMmurphy an investigative reporter with the USA TODAY Network is doing a@reddit_AMA on the story:https://usat.ly/2rSGHuy - 1 more reply
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This is why the
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Actually I'm more afraid he understands perfectly and is fine with it.
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Next time there's a port strike in LGB people should remember this. It's spun as "overpaid" longshoremen who often strike in solidarity 1/2
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But those strikes are about the truckers and warehouse workers still prevented from unionizing
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This is capitalism's true face.
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Theres adifference between capitalism (which has enabled you to own and tweet this from your smartphone/computer) and unethical businesses
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They are one and the same. Capitalism is inherently exploitative and unethical and will inevitably lead to stories like the truckers.
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Did you ever consider that people can be shitty to other people and thats how shit like this happens and not a general mode of an economy...
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Instead youre being all like "ERROR LOGIC DETECTED, BLAME ALL CAPITALISM BLAME ALL CAPITALISM ERROR"
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Yes, there are bad people within the capitalism. BUT capitalism rewards bad people who pursue profit at all costs & punishes moral people
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