• RagingRobot@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If a CEO finds out that he can get slaves to do the work for free instead of spending money on it they have an obligation to the shareholders to do what makes the company the most money.

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      1 year ago

      The only reason corporations aren’t doing chattel slavery in the U.S. right now is that they’re legally barred from it.

      • Haagel@lemmings.world
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        1 year ago

        I just heard an NPR story about US Steel Corp using chattel slavery less than a hundred years ago. They worked people to death and buried them in unmarked graves.