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Re:Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US... by iepathos on Saturday September 09, 2023 @08:50AM (#37444745)
You don't understand what slavery is. Slaves don't get paid and it isn't voluntary. H1B are paid and is entirely voluntary. The reason foreigners accept and compete for the positions is because the pay is better than the positions they can get locally. Calling that slavery is ignorant and an insult to anyone alive or historically who has suffered actual slave labor.
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Re:Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US... by isaacremuant on Saturday September 09, 2023 @09:36AM (#37445244)
People who go to Dubai and end up in what people call slavery also "sign contracts" and go there "voluntarily".

They're exploited nonetheless.

Your entire comment defending exploitation is and insult to anyone alive.

Disgusting semantics game to defend what the US and other countries do with migrants. You're trying to shame people when you're the one who should feel ashamed.

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Re:Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US... by wenebego on Saturday September 09, 2023 @09:08AM (#37444934)
If you need to work to survive, you are a wage slave
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Re:Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US... by mrits on Saturday September 09, 2023 @09:15AM (#37445000)
I'd love to hear your take on exercise
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Re:Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US... by reducesuffering on Saturday September 09, 2023 @11:52AM (#37446766)
All your hunter gatherer and farmer ancestors were wage slaves apparently
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Re:Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US... by usrnm on Saturday September 09, 2023 @09:06AM (#37444909)
> You don't understand what slavery is. Slaves don't get paid and it isn't voluntary

Technically, that varies. Slavery is as old as humanity itself and it exists in different forms. It's not even unheard of for a slave to be wealthier than his master, although, of course, this is more of an exception. What I'm trying to say is if someone isn't picking up cotton in the american south, it doesn't mean they cannot be enslaved and don't need help

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Re:Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US... by vinay_ys on Saturday September 09, 2023 @09:48AM (#37445367)
Back in the days of slaves, someone would have argued how slavery isn't that bad because there were more worse things in their past and how slavery was an improvement in the lives of those slaves compared to what they would have had in their home country. Your argument reeks of the same moral flaw.
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Re:Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US... by dragonwriter on Saturday September 09, 2023 @09:51AM (#37445399)
> Back in the days of slaves, someone would have argued how slavery isn't that bad because there were more worse things in their past and how slavery was an improvement in the lives of those slaves compared to what they would have had in their home country.

Its not that uncommon an argument to encounter today on the Right.

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Re:Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US... by josefx on Saturday September 09, 2023 @11:13AM (#37446311)
> Slaves don't get paid and it isn't voluntary.

That is a very ignorant and US centric view of something that has been practiced for millennia all over the world.

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