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There's modern day slavery in the world. Today. Even in the US we have compelled labor - it's a whole thing in the Georgia prison system. Those McDonald's burger flippers are essentially slaves, and I bet you didn't know that.
But if we subscribe to the ideology of "X has it worse" nothing would get done, ever.
The reality is even in seemingly prosperous industries workers, laborers, DO NOT have equal leverage in negotiations. Not even close. What you're describing is relying on the generosity of the corporations who employ them. A fine strategy, but hardly sustainable. They, too, can look to improve their situation.
The prisoners yes, the McDonald’s workers absolutely not. The avg McDonald’s worker tenure is quite short and having briefly been one, I can assure you it’s nothing like slavery. Get a grip.
https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-inve...
> Get a grip
I'd suggest you be more curious when others are confident about injustice in the future.
Absolutely yes, it's a whole program for coerced labor. Like I said, I bet you didn't know about it because this shit is absolutely under the table in regards to our media.
But yes, we do, to this day, have prisoners who are mostly black forced to work for well under minimum wage in private businesses, such as McDonald's, Wendy's, Golden Corral... sounds a lot like slavery when you put it like that.
> Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
People act like the US abolished slavery but it instead institutionalized it and then later (of course...) privatized it.
No i'm not. I'm highlighting the market forces within a competitive, highly paid job market.
These people have options. Other industries, not so much.
But when all options suck equally, that doesn't really help.
If they don't work, they won't get parole. If they call out or otherwise don't work their 40 hours, they get reprimanded. They lose "good time" - no phone calls, no visits, no outside time, etc.
They don't earn minimum wage - much less, because the prison garnishes half of the wage for the opportunity to be forced to work.
Parole rate in Georgia is about 8%, and it's a tough on crime state. Their parole rate should be around 80%, but it's not. Getting 25 years for possession or other non-violent crimes, you have no choice but to participate in the South's modern-day slavery.
Prisoners who don't take this "opportunity" to be sold out to mcdonalds get punished.
Nail on the head. I'd be grateful to do their job for half of what they make (and I could probably do it just as well). There are thousands of highly qualified tech workers currently working as Starbucks baristas who feel the same way. I don't know exactly what the legal options NYT has to handle this are, but I imagine the union isn't in a strong place to negotiate beyond "it would be the most inconvenient time to replace us right now."
Do you have a source for this data?
Edit: to those downvoting this, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41504026#41506801 above. Just one example
ie it's not because you are well paid that you are paid enough or fairly
The result is there some people take large part of the pie while not contributing to the baking in any meaningful way. Doesn't seem fair to me
I say it is about time. We recently got a management recognition of the simple fact that remote works better for some cases ( where we had to say that if they want ridiculous project done on time, I want to not travel to office ).
We need this shit in writing, in policy. Fuck old guard management.
edit: clarified 'it'
And agree with you along every one of those (except police, who are tasked with protecting capital).