@return2ozma to A Boring Dystopia • 4 months agoRaise Wages? No Need — McDonald’s Is Hiring Inmates Insteadjacobin.comexternal-linkmessage-square32arrow-up1316arrow-down18cross-posted to: workreform
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink35•edit-24 months 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-squareCavemanlink3•4 months 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•4 months agoSo, you get punished if you quit. That makes it not voluntary.
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.
Yes, but I lost privileges
So, you get punished if you quit. That makes it not voluntary.