The amount of mental gymnastics you're doing to justify the amount of SLAVE LABOR in the US is truly incredible. And couple that with one of the highest rates of incarceration in the world, that really tells us all we need to know about the state of human rights.
> oh please, the US economy literally runs on slavery
Also
> 17% of the industry being done by slave labor is obviously very significant.
That's not what the stat says. It says 17% of the prison labor did that job, not that 17% of the labor for that job was prisoners.
Here's the quote for ya:
"...agricultural work constitutes a greater percentage of work assignments, such as in Arkansas, where 17 percent of job assignments for incarcerated people were in agricultural work in 2021."
But tell me again how I'm nonsensical.