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> access to unskilled, unmotivated labor is really that profitable for most modern industries

It depends on how we qualify "modern" industries, but there's definitely a market for unskilled warm bodies. Recycling triage could be an example of that: the result is simple enough to assess that you can set a dozen of people on a line and adjust reward/punishment depending on the results. And it's definitely a modern problem.

The other aspect: while there will be better ways to do it, it won't beat the price of "slave" as long as there's no other risks in participating in the system.

In a very dark way, it's pretty hard to beat "almost free" through sheer technical advancement.