• KelvarCherry [They/Them]@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    21 days ago

    Legal slavery is regularly used; especially on farms. For instance, Taylor Farms (the company with the lettuce making everyone sick) uses forced labor :/

    There’s nothing for MAGA to change in that regard. That system is already running.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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      20 days ago

      They can make it much larger and weaponize it. Right now it’s a fraction of our labor force, but what if it was 20% or more? What if they operated primarily as a way of punishing and torturing political opposition? They could punish a good portion of the country, and use it to scare the rest into submission.

      There’s a LOT they could do to make it worse. Forced Labor under the 13th Amendment needs to be repealed.