Date Created: June 21, 2023
This community supports labor, with an aspiration for it to cease to be required to live our lives. Members of this community want to end work, are curious about ending work, want to get the most out of a work-free life, want more information on anti-work ideas and/or want personal help with their own jobs/work-related struggles.
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The fuck why can't the US stop reinventing slavery
No need, just changed the definition.
In the words of System of a Down:
Private prison stock nearly doubled coinciding with the election.
Apparently Biden has approved a payment to them of 770 dollars? Big whoop. Commute their sentences. The least you can do.
State jail means no federal commutation. Gavin (and CA legislature) would be the people to yell at.
I'm totally out of the loop here, what happened?
For the fires in Los Angeles, they sent prisoners to put them out, chain gang style.
Calfire inmate firefighters volunteer for placement in it. It's bad enough as is but don't make it something it isn't.
What in the ever loving christ?!?!
That's what they do in US prisons, use them for unpaid labour, or they get a very small amount. But imagine forcing someone to put out a blazing forest fire when they've never done such a thing, and then taking them back to prison. That's insane. It's all insane.
Yeah, I mean the forced / coerced prison labour is shit enough as it is, but making that labour actively life-threatening is horrific
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YA coding is probably Young Adult, isnt it?
What's this have to to with work?
If I'm following news properly, these are probably the juveniles who were taken from their holding facility to fight fires. They are not compensated for this work, but are placed in harm's way.
That doesn't sound like work at all. That sounds like something where someone is a prisoner and is forced to work for someone. That's called something, I think.
Not making an argument for it, but technically they're using the exception to the amendment. Most states, including California, have it in their state amendments, so unless they put in another Federal amendment it's going to remain this way.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist
Yeah, and you can use the word. The thirteenth amendment says in no uncertain terms that SLAVERY is legal....if it's the punishment for a crime.
Very little. Anti work and work reform communities have turned into generalized working/not rich class communities.
Inb4 they make it so you have to add money in person for "reasons"