• @CharlesDarwin
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    89 days ago

    fraction of minimum wage

    I do wonder if they might turn to using prison labor - and finding lots of reasons to throw more “undesirables” into the prison system to get that labor. Might be a lot of “war on drugs” stuff comes roaring back, esp. on something like cannabis…because it’s ripe for highly selective enforcement.

    • @[email protected]
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      9 days ago

      Lol. They are going to have millions of “immigrants” concentrated in camps… why would they have an issue finding labor?

    • @IphtashuFitz
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      19 days ago

      Wouldn’t surprise me at all, but even that would be a limited & unreliable resource. It would also require getting inmates to the farms, warehouses, etc. and keeping tabs on them while they work. That would be a logistical nightmare…

      • @CharlesDarwin
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        28 days ago

        Maybe, but plenty of other tyrannies delighted in holding this kind of thing over their subjugated populations. Being efficient was not necessarily a goal when extracting labor from people in gulags and concentration camps.