Edit: new and improved image, now with 100% less support! Used my expert photo editing skills to change “supporting” to say “voting for”

  • AdamHenry@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    14
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    9 months ago

    Goddamn if this ain’t the truest thing I’ve read in weeks. Just an addendum, slavery has never gone away. It built the foundation of this country and continues to be the reliable and cheaply paid engine that drives it. Slavery exists, it just has been frosted in corpo speak and glitter to fool the masses.

    • SparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      9 months ago

      Where do you believe slavery still exists in the US? Can you give an example of humans being owned by an individual or company and forced to work for no wages in 2024?

      • jkrtn@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        12
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        9 months ago

        Sure: in prisons that are disproportionately filled with minorities, as is explicitly allowed in the amendment.

          • Saurok@lemm.ee
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            7
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            9 months ago

            Chattel slavery ended, which is where people literally owned other people as their deeded property. There are other forms of slavery though, like the other commenter mentioned with involuntary labor in prisons. Wage slavery is also a thing.