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> We send all the flattened Magic packaging and booster packs to the prison and the inmates do the product fulfillment.

Was that a joke or serious? I was enjoying the article until that abrupt end and it just felt dark. A company forcing imprisoned humans to distribute their product?

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Are you unfamiliar with the Prison Industrial Complex?

Are you unfamiliar that slavery is illegal in America except for prisoners?

Again, this was in Belgium.

Prison labour underpins a great deal of the machinery of capitalism, even in nominally free countries. Serfdom never really left the building.

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