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neverbeenwrongb4 t1_jedp2t4 wrote

Reply to comment by West_Engineering_80 in China calls US debt trap accusation 'irresponsible' by BubsyFanboy

https://revealnews.org/article/they-thought-they-were-going-to-rehab-they-ended-up-in-chicken-plants/

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/california-prison-inmates-become-a-critical-resource-for-fighting-wildfires

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Prison_Industries

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West_Engineering_80 t1_jedrnii wrote

“Chicken processing plants are notoriously dangerous and understaffed. The hours are long, the pay is low and the conditions are brutal.” Horrible treatment of 200 people who were payed low wages.

Second link: apparently no slavery either. Just training ex inmates.

3rd link: we all hate prison for pay.

Awful shit - no excuse. But slavery? No.

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neverbeenwrongb4 t1_jedsi7r wrote

>Second link: apparently no slavery either. Just training ex inmates.

Not training them, using them, for very difficult and even dangerous labor. And paying them well below subsistence wages to do it. That's slavery by the definition of international labor standards organizations.

I have little doubt that China's system of labor camps uses pretty similar incentive structures, the inmates are probably paid a tiny pittance, less than 10 or 20% of what local free laborers would be paid, but still not quite zero. IIRC, even the Soviet gulags often paid their inmates a tiny nominal wage. That is not a defense of them, they were grotesque inhuman death camps, a system of slave labor on a scale almost unprecedented in human history.

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West_Engineering_80 t1_jedsp4g wrote

You have little doubt?

Are there libel laws in your country?

If you accused me personally of a crime, you better have a better understanding or any proof?

Not just some supposition.

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