• @ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 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?

    • Caveman
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      33 months ago

      I 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.