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Re:Oracle allegedly underpaid $400M in wages to underreprese... by joecool1029 on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @07:20PM (#18984721)
> Slaves don't choose their job, work visa immigrants do.

Some slaves absolutely sell themselves into it, in other to escape poverty, debt, or war[1]. It doesn't change the fact that they do have less rights, less options, and their employer can and will abuse this as evidenced by this thread and a shitload of other HN threads. (and yes, I understand this is unpopular sentiment because the citizens want to believe they are doing a good thing and providing upward mobility and the immigrants don't want to consider themselves slaves)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_slavery

Re:Oracle allegedly underpaid $400M in wages to underreprese... by walshemj on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @07:51PM (#18984958)
And the early colonisation of north America made use of indentured colonists who where early on preferred to slaves in some cases.