What a horrific article. This is showing me that I am naive in a lot of ways - how much suffering is our society built on?
It takes a LOT of garbage haulers, floor sweepers, line cooks, dishwashers, and the like to keep our society humming along.
It's ostensibly voluntary, so not the same thing as in TFA, but close.
There is also a huge amount of slave labor used in the US's world-leading prison population. Slavery was never really abolished in the US, just limited to prisoners. Correspondingly, the number of black people in prison skyrocketed.