Good god...

Now the short Wastage of Human Resources (1947) is on Retro Strange TV.

What is the "wastage" of "human resources" they are talking about? Infant deaths.

Way to treat people as chattel, assholes!

(I don't blame RSTV for showing it. We should know about the crap that people believed.)

#eugenics #capitalism #chattel #RSTV

chattel
noun
1: an item of tangible movable or immovable property except real estate and things (such as buildings) connected with real property
These statutes do not apply to personal property; for chattels, an oral statement of donative intent plus delivery still suffices —William M. McGovern, Jr. et al.
—sometimes used as a mass noun
2: an enslaved person held as the legal property of another : bondman
He had struck down my personality, had subjected me to his will, made property of my body and soul, reduced me to a chattel … —Frederick Douglass

#word #chattel #definition
#MerriamWebster

@fixatedpersonsunit

I love this #metaphor - perhaps the most accurate description of the #Sunnyvale_Syndrome that I've ever read.

#tallship #chattel #subjugation

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Slavery Is Not Gone, It Has Just Moved Out to Sea | The #Outlaw #Ocean #Project

While #forced #labor still exists throughout the world, one place where it’s especially pervasive is the South China Sea — especially in the Thai fishing fleet, according to a 2016 investigation by the New York Times.

Partly this is because in a typical year, Thailand’s fishing industry is short about fifty thousand mariners, according to the U.N. in 2014.
As a result, tens of thousands of migrants from Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar are whisked into Thailand each year to make up this chronic shortfall.

Then, unscrupulous captains buy and sell the men and boys like #chattel.

https://www.theoutlawocean.com/reporting/slavery-is-not-gone-it-has-just-moved-out-to-sea/

White man, Asian woman, fertility treatments, divorce: she wants divided custody of the embryos, he doesn't--the judge went into slavery-era law to issue the ruling.

Because that's where we are in 2023.

#Chattel #Slavery #Virginia

https://apnews.com/article/embryos-slavery-chattel-custody-virginia-82e1f36ecbcf35ec4659e8e2c3443c4f

https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2023/04/25/danger-todays-jurisprudence-reproducing-slavery-era-ideas/