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by harperlee
1965 days ago
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That’s a long way to say that you think that when they said: > Were you paid? Could you leave the job if you wanted? Then it’s not slave labour. That’s not a great definition of “slave labour” because, for starters, “getting paid” and “ability to change jobs” are not binary. |
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One has to understand these are the very same people who stand by when they see Apple use contractors and deny them pay and just think 'oh well...' and go back to working for Apple and then through a convoluted form of mental gymnastics compartmentalize things to such an extent that they cannot see themselves as a critical part of the problem (even when those very people being exploited at their countrymen and something their parents fled to to the West for because of an acute form of diffusion of responsibility.
It's an illness and a reflection of a very sick Society, to think that small restaurant owners aren't labouring under some very convoluted form of slave labour at the hand of the State and Federal government is beyond me. They went into so much debt, and aren't working for money, simply the survival of the business in the face of forced consolidation by massive Industry and tech conglomerates.
And the fact that this is ok amongst so many in Society goes to show how slavery never went away, it just got obfuscated and presents itself in more tolerable and palatable forms for the majority of people once they reach a certain point (or the illusion of it) in Life.
You can't walk away for from a loan where you used your and your family's house as collateral, and the fact that most of these owners aren't even breaking even and just going into further debt because of continued lockdowns that the very politicians who enacted them (Newson, Pelosi et all in CA) are on tape showing how they think they're exempt for them shows how diffusion of responsibility better than anything else how slavery just changed flavours with the same ingredients.