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TalkingDog

(9,001 posts)
Mon Jun 20, 2016, 12:08 PM Jun 2016

New American Slavery. Along with 50 popular companies that profit.

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 didn’t, 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.
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New American Slavery. Along with 50 popular companies that profit. (Original Post) TalkingDog Jun 2016 OP
Article comes from a bullshit web site. Archae Jun 2016 #1
National Enquirer broke the John Edwards story. This isn't even at that level of secrecy. TalkingDog Jun 2016 #4
How many people would be able to pay what products should really cost? Agnosticsherbet Jun 2016 #2
SMH Mr Dixon Jun 2016 #3

Archae

(46,262 posts)
1. Article comes from a bullshit web site.
Mon Jun 20, 2016, 12:22 PM
Jun 2016

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 world’s top scientists and thinkers.

http://returntonow.net/2016/05/29/agriculture-worst-mistake-humans-ever-made/#comment-1560

TalkingDog

(9,001 posts)
4. National Enquirer broke the John Edwards story. This isn't even at that level of secrecy.
Mon Jun 20, 2016, 09:42 PM
Jun 2016

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)
2. How many people would be able to pay what products should really cost?
Mon Jun 20, 2016, 12:23 PM
Jun 2016

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)
3. SMH
Mon Jun 20, 2016, 12:29 PM
Jun 2016

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.

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