• aramis87@fedia.io
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    4 months ago

    You know what’s cheaper than underpaid immigrants? Barely-paid-at-all prison labor. They’re criminalizing homelessness (at the same time they’re raising rents and food prices), they’re trying to criminalize gay rights, women’s rights, civil rights, disabled rights, etc. Also trying to dismantle Social Security and Medicaid to force the old and sick to keep working, repealing child labor laws to force kids into the workplace earlier, withdrawing worker protections like heat and water breaks so they can be forced to work longer, etc.

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      4 months ago

      what even do these prison-labor-slaves produce that’s so precious? are there specific products you guys could boycott?

      sorry for the dumb question.

      i’m a faraway european and don’t know much.

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        It really depends on where the prison is. Some states “rent out” slaves prison labor to farms, local businesses, and global megacorps. The prisoners get paid pennies per day, get the absolute worst and most dangerous jobs, and have notably less protections than ‘normal’ workers.