• hector@lemmy.today
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    16 hours ago

    White slavery, we thought it went out of style generations passed. But the rich are into the classics I guess.

    Their companies of course practice all sorts of slavery in East and South Asia, from palm oil plantations, to arguably the massive factories producing everything from electronics to clothing. Not Chatelle slavery necessarily although with palm oil it is pretty close. But it amounts to the same thing, people worked to the bone with no protections, no safety, for starvation wages, while being abused every which way by the authorities.

    These people owning these corporations have maximized revenue to the point of ruining liberal democracy and shipped our technological advantages and advantages in being first in manufacturing to dictatorships overseas to make more profit on selling goods in the west with their highly valued currencies. Building their factories even, after signing 99 year leases in places like china, giving them a veritable veto on western leaders beholden to corporations.

    Exploiting their workers, poisoning their land, and selling out the middle class in the west and furthering a race to the bottom to bring our standards down to those dictatorships not those up to ours.