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I mean in a year or so I'm sure the US will allow people "rent" prisoners and some of them will even be locally sourced!
Pretty sure that's been going on for years.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/prison-labor-in-america/406177/
Yeah that's the typical chain gang type labor that we've always allowed. But I'm pretty sure a random citizen can't just rent a single person atm. And it's not going to be retail or office jobs. Who wouldn't want their own prison "secretary".
only corporate persons. not your filthy subhuman meat "people".
Ah my mistake I'm still living in 1999
oh, so you can still pretend if you've got the right skin tone and social class. that's pretty cool. can I, like, tell you some stuff and get you on a better timeline, or do you just live in that year forever?
I'm just stuck there, when the year rolls over 2000 never comes
oh. huh. can I send you some stuff to try and, like, do communism with? like basic cryptographic tools that run on childrens toys nowadays, and 26 years of security vulnerabilities to do your fav brand of communism with? or do changes not persist?
Everything goes back, no progress happens here
right, yeah, I remember that decade. bad news about the next 3 BTW.
Hate to break it to you, but that's a longstanding practice.
Yeah but I meant your everyday American. You're not walking down the street seeing your local prisoner carrying some yuppie's shopping bags.
They're scraping roadkill off highways and picking cotton. I'm suggesting they'll change not only what forced labor is allowed but also how it looks.