• grue@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    How many generations of this now 2 or 3?

    It’s been continuous since colonial times. It’s an unbroken thread from “indentured servitude” and “slavery,” to “sharecropping” and “vagrancy”/“convict leasing,” to “non-compete agreements” and prison labor being managed by prisons directly (instead of having inmates leased out).

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        4 months ago

        To be fair, I wasn’t entirely happy with my comment either. There was something missing, and I just figured out what it was.

        Along with “sharecropping” I should’ve mentioned “sweatshops,” and along with “non-compete agreements” I should’ve mentioned anti-union laws like “right-to-work” and “at-will employment.”