• @[email protected]
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    391 year ago

    The employees ARE being compelled to work under threat. It might not be dictionary definition slavery, which is why the article calls it one of the “contemporary forms of slavery”.

    • tal
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      -381 year ago

      No, they are not. They can stop working; they just won’t be able to continue their job under more-favorable conditions.

      • Evie
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        261 year ago

        You’re such a moron, it’s sickening how you could be sooo stupid…

      • Aldehyde
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        111 year ago

        American slaves could have stopped working whenever they wanted; they only wouldn’t have been able to continue not being whipped

      • @Windex007
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        1 year ago

        Definitions of slavery don’t necessarily require there to be legal ownership of another. Never has.

        Don’t make your own ignorance everyone else’s problem.

        Even if all you did was read the title (which I strongly believe to be the case for you), you maybe noticed the words “contemporary” and “formS

        What types of questions do you think those words would mean to a curious person engaging with the content in good faith?