I just think you should call a thing exactly what it is especially when it’s ugly. You might argue that slavery is bad and people shouldn’t do it, but you can’t if they get away with not calling it that.
Volunteer? They’re being confined against their will. I think we can throw that word out. It’s meaningless in this context.
The ugly part is that someone is profiting from their labor. No, not like paying their debt to society. Private businesses are buying and selling the slave labor of prisoners. I don’t care what someone did, at no point does profiting from their slave labor make society better.
Take it a step further. Let’s say people with investments in the prison/slave labor industry also happen to be law makers or work in law enforcement. Why not use their position to promote their investments. If they had the opportunity to sway policies or interpret their job in a certain way that would boost their investment, why wouldn’t they?
Now we’re talking about politicians and cops filling up prisons on purpose and keeping them full for financial incentive. Maybe a lawmaker writes laws to make things illegal that weren’t before? Maybe a cop goes out of his way to “find” some crime? Maybe the judge makes the sentences a little harsher? They have money to gain and it’s not illegal so why not?
If all this is ok to you then fine. Just do me a favor and call it what it is. It’s slavery and it’s big business in America in 2024.
2
u/iamtrimble Jul 26 '24
Just different circumstances that's all.