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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink27•edit-213 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?
minus-squareCavemanlink2•5 hours agoI 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.
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?
I want to take up his point. It’s much more like medieval serfdom than slavery. Such as:
Although serfs were bound to the land unlike US prisoners where they can be transferred from location to location.