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Re:Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers wh... by javajosh on Thursday December 03, 2020 @01:38PM (#25292668)
That is de facto slavery!
Re:Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers wh... by nickff on Thursday December 03, 2020 @09:35PM (#25298279)
Well, it's actually de facto indentured servitude.
Re:Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers wh... by zmix on Thursday December 03, 2020 @07:17PM (#25297393)
I would call it Capitalism without opposition from the Left.
Re:Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers wh... by samdamsamma on Friday December 04, 2020 @01:27AM (#25299624)
This is objectively the case. It’s exactly what happens every time the left is broadly defeated. And I literally mean every single time.
Re:Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers wh... by drran on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:48AM (#25300636)
It's Soviet Union in miniature.
Re:Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers wh... by zmix on Friday December 04, 2020 @08:29AM (#25302008)
Whether someone owns the land by property right or "owns" "common grounds" by administrative right, the result seems to be the same: Oppression of those, who don't.

And this is why a strong opposition is important. It makes oppression much more difficult.