PugJesus[Real] Stop being poor, poors!
thedeadwalking4242That’s the trap of capitalism these people take advantage of. Sure in theory vote with your supply and demand. Until one group of people create artificial legal pressures that prevent you from making the truly rational choice. If you don’t take the job that barely feeds you, you will go hungry, loose housing and be homeless.
Doesn’t even need to be artificial or legal pressures, honestly. The simple nature of human existence means our needs are incredibly regular; as long as there are impoverished folk whose needs rely on the provision of payment for labor, they will always be faced with some form of leonine contract, though the severity can vary.
Legal pressures can definitely exacerbate it, though.
Red states learning or will be learning a lesson about this real quick when they can’t find the slave wage labor to pick their crops because they deported imprisoned them.
They’ll just use prisoners at that point.
Prisoners are not skilled agricultural workers.
Oh, you don’t have to be skilled for anything for certain agricultural tasks. Any idiot can take a hoe, walk a field, and chop out a weed. Rinse & repeat thousands of times over thousands of acres.
The only question is, can you trust that idiot with giving him a hoe that could also work halfway decent as a weapon?
Other possible non-skilled ag tasks could include picking fruit/vegetables, milking cows/goats, feeding animals, cleaning animal pens, working with bales…idk there’s just a lot of things they can do with very little skill or experience. Lots of menial tasks.
Walking beanfields & weeding would probably be simplest, and very beneficial to the farmer & the prisoner (exercise, fresh air, sunshine, no real threats from animals).
Other possible non-skilled ag tasks could include picking fruit/vegetables, milking cows/goats, feeding animals, cleaning animal pens, working with bales…idk there’s just a lot of things they can do with very little skill or experience. Lots of menial tasks.
For many crops, picking fruit, for example, is an immensely skill-oriented task in order to do it fast enough to be profitable.
Prisoners in the US are effectively slaves also I thought?
Depends on the state. Some states allow for forced prison labor. Most ‘only’ allow for ‘voluntary’ and underpaid prison labor. California, the largest state by population, still allows for forced prison labor.
This is weirdly almost a progressive mindset but somehow seems to miss the point and make it about blaming the victim.
“The problem is that the job doesn’t pay enough!”
“Yes, exactly!”
“So that lazy POOR should’ve gotten a better one!”
“???”
It’s amazing how conservatives miss the point so reliably. I imagine it’s intentional for Bench Appearo, but many others are probably just genuinely that blinkered in their thinking.