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Re:America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufac... by runako on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @12:23PM (#43707279)
The US specifically outlawed slavery except among prisoners. The US also operates prison labor at very low rates.

I'm not sure this is a meaningful point of differentiation.

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Re:America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufac... by anon6362 on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @11:57PM (#43712980)
US corporations benefit today from slave labor by people housed in for-profit prisons where there are incentives to over-prosecute brown and poor people. These include, but aren't limited to:

- Aramark

- Avis

- IBM

- JCPenney

- Kmart

- McDonald's

- Nintendo

- Sprint

- Starbucks

- Verizon

- Walmart

- Wendy's

- Whole Foods/Amazon

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