• Diva (she/her)
      224·
      2 days ago

      If it happens in US it’s actually a privilege, not forced labor.

      Characterizing prison work as forced labor is wrongheaded, he said, because most inmates who qualify for paid work earn that classification based on positive credits for behavior. “In other words, it’s a privilege,” he said, better than some of the other alternatives behind bars.

      -Shawn Bushway, RAND Corporation

        • Diva (she/her)
          51·
          2 days ago

          The US actually has a higher prison population than China, both per capita and total despite having a fraction of Chinas population. I’m not in favor of forced labor or the carceral state in general.

          When it’s happening in the country I live in, it’s going to be a slightly higher priority for me.

          • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
            73·
            2 days ago

            The US actually has a higher prison population than China, both per capita and total despite having a fraction of Chinas population.

            This is only true if you exclude Xinjiang concentration camps though.

            But either way, it ain’t a competition both states run a degeranged penal systems albeit targeting different undesirables. China focused on wrong think, US goes for poors and/or minorities.

            The end goal is the same, keep the normie acting like a docile dog.

          • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
            34·
            2 days ago

            Whats the percentage of Chinas pop that are prison workers, disclosed and undisclosed?

            If you’re in the US why are you on .ml?

      • DoiDoi [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        172·
        2 days ago

        The US has the largest prison population in the world and when measured per capita stands alone as a completely absurd outlier. A country that has legalized slavery if used as punishment for a crime. A country that has private prisons where the prisoners are used to make consumer goods, fight forest fires, and in some cases even work on farms classico style. There’s no probably about it at all - the US facilitates enourmous amounts of slave labor and that’s not even getting into the resource extraction from the global south that keeps the whole machine running.