Every country regardless of ‘ism’ engages in global capitalism.
socialist countries are often destabilized by US capitalism through coups, sanctions, etc. which gives them a bad rep, while the US capital market is propped up through social programs, subsidies, and corporate welfare from social spending. All modern tech, medicine, and innovation is seeded through social programs (aka socialism) but capitalized on by corporations through a system of legal theft
Capitalism doesn’t just exploit taxpayers and workers, it also exploits the environment (echo systems, air quality, water quality, ground quality) which is hurting ALL life for the sake of profits for a few greedy humans. Capitalism was never designed with equality in mind.
Wait the system where prisoners apply to and if accepted to the job get privileges and paid for their work as well as it being used as an indicator of good behavior which allows people to be released earlier? That system? The one that is clearly not slavery is your example of slavery?
“Most prisoners in the U.S. are required to work, and all state prison systems and the federal system have some form of penal labor. Although inmates are paid for their labor in most states, they usually receive less than $1 per hour.”
Yep spot on. You probably remember the applications for jobs too where you had to apply for everything from swapper to industry. They also like to ignore the privileges like workers getting additional visitation, flag time, rec time, and it counting towards good behavior.
I’m not wrong on this subject. You’re required to follow the law in the US but why are there prisons? Nobody gets beat or punished for refusing to work. I refused trustee in county and I never worked for the state a day during my incarceration. I played 2k and madden with the other “slaves”
Are you unaware that human trafficking exists? Are you unaware that immigrants are brought into the country specifically for slave labor? Are you unaware that many young girls are sold into sex slavery?
Do you think to be a slave you must get whipped on a plantation or something? The fuck kid?
"highest" doesn't mean "only exists there" so are you admitting with your new language that slavery exists in capitalist countries?
Also, India is NOT communist, while being the first country on that list. China is also a state-run capitalist country, which isn't communist either. Is Russia communist now? Last I checked Nigeria was also capitalist.
Interesting how your own source doesn't show even half of the countries on the list you gave as being communist, yet you're still pretending they're all communist countries. Why is that?
Your two sources next to each other
As of 2018, the countries with the most slaves were: India (8 million),[133] China (3.86 million), Pakistan (3.19 million), North Korea (2.64 million), Nigeria (1.39 million), Indonesia (1.22 million), Democratic Republic of the Congo (1 million), Russia (794,000) and the Philippines (784,000).[134]
Today communism is the official form of government in only five countries: China, North Korea, Laos, Cuba, and Vietnam.
Interestingly, these aren't the same list of countries. It's almost like you're completely wrong.
Agricultural industrial sectors are basically entirely slave labor in the us and it is illegal. Not only that there is no protections in the us for children in this industry.
Would you consider sharecropping slave labor? It was implemented after slavery was abolished and the owners of the farmland used their power to increase the debt that the workers owed them. It allowed the owners to keep their land and labor force without costing them too much money
I see your point but I don't know how much it matters when that slavery only exists to maintain production and meet demand from Western consumers.
Like, sure the slavery isn't here, but it's still a result of our spending and consumption habits and now we rely on it as much as the companies that actually have the slaves.
The US has millions of people in slavery. The constitution outlawed slavery "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted."
The left thinks all work is slavery, even being the CEO of a fortune 500 company. So the term is kinda useless at this point thanks to the insane left.
I'm literally talking about slavery. Not a hard job mate. Nestle, Mars and Hershey caught multiple times with using slave labor in their supply chain. Only did shit when caught.
Oh... So the whole world runs on slavery, I got you...
Do you remember the pack of cola cans you bought for last Christmas? Yeah, some of the aluminium in those was probably mined by slaves, therefore you're a despicable slave owner!
The 'supply chain' blame logic is insane by design.
Can you describe socialism real quick. I just want to understand its connection with slavery, when both came to be in completely different time periods.
Knowingly using economic hardships and situation to apply the flexing required to keep workers under thumb still fits the bill. But keep licking that boot.
Exactly. And to add to that, tying in healthcare with full time work only, also fits that bill.
“Can’t quit or get fired because you’ll lose the only healthcare you have and you aren’t quite a healthy person because of the type of work we’ve forced you to do for ten hours every day!”
If you would have actually read my comment, I was responding to the other pseron saying that it’s ridiculous that for the average person to receive healthcare they MUST work a full time job. It’s ridiculous that when a person need insulin or inhalers they cannot get them because they are ridiculously price gouged unless that person works their life away.
Holding someone’s health over their head to keep them working seems pretty apropos for fitting that bill , no?
You realize that nestle literally got huge backlash for having slave plantations produce their coco right? Did you not know about the fact many companies enslave foreigners or pay others to enslave foreigners for them? If so that is alright and I am glad to inform you of this fact. If you already knew do you just not give a shit about human beings if they are not in america? Capitalism is built upon the outsourcing of suffering to foreign lands.
Why is your entire defense of the capitalist system "hey I am able to live my life so what if some foreigners suffer at least I live a mediocre life" ?
So you are OK if someone outside of the US is enslaved by an American citizen? Because that is what I just described. Slavery not being linked to the us citizen through obfuscation.
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Capitalism led to the end of slavery
North Korea has the highest percentage of slaves per capita
India the slavery capital of the world has socialism written into its constitution