• Flipper@feddit.org
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      2 days ago

      Are you sure you linked the correct thing?

      Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime

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        Yes. Slavery was abolished, except for people being punished for a crime: prisoners. That’s why the private prison industry is so profitable.

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        except as a punishment for crime

        Those are explicitly for low level crimes. Normally considered ‘community work sentences’, they’re forced unpaid volunteer work in the community that you would have caused harm in. Graffiti or Vandalism for example might have you work with local volunteer groups who go around cleaning up graffiti or repairing broken windows. Basically cleaning up the very thing you caused.

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        “Inmates working for state-owned businesses earned between US$0.33 and US$1.41 per hour in 2017 – about twice the amount paid to inmates who work regular prison jobs.”

        I wouldn’t exactly call that being paid. It’s more of a pocket money situation.

        Rehabilitation in prison is about education and giving people a perspective in life when they leave prison. Just making them suffer will not make them change their ways.

        See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recidivism

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            If they were paid $0.01 per hour, would you say they were being paid?

            If yes, then clearly, “being paid” is not the dividing line between slavery and freedom, so you should establish how much you think someone should be paid for it to not be slavery.

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                By this logic, there were no slaves at any point in American history because all those people we brought over from Africa and bred into servitude were paid in food and shelter.

                I really hope this is trolling.