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Not that you'd give up trading with them. After all, cheaper prices and more profits. Best of 'Murica!
(and besides, they're poor and powerless. if they didn't want to be in prison they wouldn't be poor and powerless)
http://returntonow.net/2016/06/13/prison-labor-is-the-new-american-slavery/
While not all prisoners are forced to work, most opt to because life would be even more miserable if they didnt, as they have to purchase pretty much everything above the barest necessities (and sometimes those too) with their hard-earned pennies. Some of them have legal fines to pay off and families to support on the outside. Often they come out more indebted than when they went in.
Archae
(46,262 posts)Here's an article from it:
Agriculture: The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race
Prior to agriculture, humans lived happier, healthier, freer and easier lives, claims one of the worlds top scientists and thinkers.
http://returntonow.net/2016/05/29/agriculture-worst-mistake-humans-ever-made/#comment-1560
TalkingDog
(9,001 posts)Everybody pretty much knows about the Prison Industrial Complex.
Blind squirrel and all that.
Haven't you been keeping up? Political parties, CEO's, Government Administrations, all have their own "mocking birds" in the media. If you only accept stories that can be otherwise verified from absolutely "pristine" sources, you'll never actually read anything again.
So, can you blame me for looking at a news source that doesn't utilize reporters to drive a message; sans fingerprints so that the public believes the messages are coming from the reporters and not the person with an agenda?
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)Cellphones, computers, and all appliances would easily double or triple in cost if we paid decent wages and paid the cost of fixing pollution that comes from their manufacture up front.
Cheap good come at a cost. Prison labor is a tiny fraction of it.
Mr Dixon
(1,185 posts)There is nothing new about this, in fact it is an insult to say this is new, it's about as new as the 13th amendment SMH.