Our civilisations also kept slaves for millennia.

megous · 2025-01-06T12:11:39 1736165499

They still do, mechanisms and messaging are just smarter.

viccis · 2025-01-06T20:58:24 1736197104

I'm aware of the is-ought problem with my statement, but my point is that that is the role calves play when we want cow dairy products. The problem with it as it exists today is the barbarous nature of factory farming.

FrustratedMonky · 2025-01-06T13:22:05 1736169725

Not sure there isn't a group bringing it back.

Outlawing being poor/homeless, so the poor can be arrested just for not having housing. Or for debts.

Then, making laws that inmates can be provided to corporations to work.

Boom, some slavery.

robertlagrant · 2025-01-06T13:37:23 1736170643

It's not being brought back. There is slavery today[0].

[0] https://www.antislavery.org/slavery-today/modern-slavery

FrustratedMonky · 2025-01-06T20:01:04 1736193664

Not sure the US will realize it until everyone has an uncle or cousin working as an indentured servant in a prison workforce.

Then MAGA will be like "hey, wait a minute, this seems kind of like slavery. Isn't that something we stopped teaching in school".

pfannkuchen · 2025-01-07T17:24:33 1736270673

I’m really confused why congress doesn’t outlaw prison labor of this kind. No one supports it anywhere on the political spectrum.

Are the companies who profit from it really that influential?

robertlagrant · 2025-01-06T13:34:23 1736170463

Our civilisations also drank water for millennia.