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Raise Wages? No Need — McDonald’s Is Hiring Inmates Instead (jacobin.com)
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[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

24 dollars a month. [...] we were paid

10c an hour. I can totally see how this is not slave labor.

I'll tell you what made it slave labor: could you quit that job?

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I want to take up his point. It's much more like medieval serfdom than slavery. Such as:

  • Shit salary instead of no salary.
  • Can't me sold.
  • Has rights (more than a slave, less than a free man)

Although serfs were bound to the land unlike US prisoners where they can be transferred from location to location.

[–] militaryintelligence@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, but I lost privileges

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

So, you get punished if you quit. That makes it not voluntary.