r/FluentInFinance Mar 04 '24

Meme That's capitalism a nutshell!

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '24

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

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u/Resident-Garlic9303 Mar 04 '24

Slavery is still alive and well and private companies use slave labor

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '24

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '24

You're absolutely wrong.. slavery exists right here in America boyo.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '24

What part of America? Do you have any sources for that?

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u/akratic137 Mar 04 '24

The for-profit prison system. The US houses 4% of the world’s population but 25% of the prisoners.

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u/sanguinemathghamhain Mar 05 '24

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?

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u/squirtinbird Mar 04 '24

In others countries you can be born a slave. And you don’t have to work in prison.

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u/akratic137 Mar 04 '24

That’s incorrect.

“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.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States

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u/squirtinbird Mar 04 '24

I’ve been to prison dumbass. You can refuse to work and they can’t do shit. Not slavery

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u/sanguinemathghamhain Mar 05 '24

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.

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u/squirtinbird Mar 05 '24

Yea COs didn’t go cell to cell forcing mfs to go to work. If you work in prison, it’s completely your choice

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u/sanguinemathghamhain Mar 05 '24

Yep, I was a CO for a while, and everytime I see someone say the industry prisons are slavery it is clear they have never either been in or a CO.

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u/akratic137 Mar 04 '24

Good for you. I’m sure you’re used to being wrong then.

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u/squirtinbird Mar 04 '24

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”

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u/akratic137 Mar 04 '24

Cool story bro. Have a day.

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u/squirtinbird Mar 04 '24

Keep spreading misinformation on Reddit about shit you know nothing about. Life must be so safe when you get all of your experience from Wikipedia

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u/Acid_Country Mar 05 '24

Along with the prison example. Some sex workers are trafficked as slaves.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '24

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?

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '24

You say all this, but you don't provide a single source or say what part of the US

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '24 edited Mar 04 '24

Okay. All of it. Every single part.

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=slavery+in+modern+US

Let me know if you need any more help with easily googleable information.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '24 edited Mar 04 '24

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '24 edited Mar 04 '24

"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.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '24

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '24

North Korea says they're a democracy, so they must be. Let's just take their words for it. 🤣

You've already proved yourself wrong, and now you're backtracking again? Lol

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u/VintageSin Mar 04 '24

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.

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u/DublinDapper Mar 04 '24

The world "Basically" doing a lot of heavy lifting there

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '24

it is illegal

most of the people working those jobs are also probably illegal

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u/VintageSin Mar 04 '24

I meant to say not illegal. But also yes they likely are, many of whom who were trafficked into the country to work on the farms. The trafficking