Furniture giant IKEA has agreed to pay 6 million euros ($6.5 million) towards a government fund compensating victims of forced labor under Germany’s communist dictatorship, in a move campaigners hope will pressure other companies to follow.

  • @B0rax@feddit.org
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    1519 days ago

    No. It is not different. Nobody should be forced to do Labour. Prisons are not supposed to be money making machines. Prisons are supposed to reintegrate people into society. But I guess the US has not heard about that.

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      19 days ago

      If you run over children with your car and have to fix potholes for 8 yeara, that’s ok in my books. Having to do that because you think women should be able to vote IS different.

      But that’s merely my opinion and fits my world view perfectly

      And it’s not about making money, it’s about having consiquenses. The prisoner working has a guard (at least where I live) whose pay is more than what the convict makes.

      • @B0rax@feddit.org
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        719 days ago

        Again. It should not be about punishment but about re-socializing.

        At least in theory.

        • redfellow
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          19 days ago

          Part of resocialising is that you get to meet your demons daily. I’m from Finland and our system has one of the highest success rates in the world.

          You downvoting me makes it seem like you’d prefer to coddle someone that chose harm, and I find that apalling.