• HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social
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      6 days ago

      No no - selling people. This is setting the stage for offering US citizens as slaves indentured servants to other countries.

      • TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca
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        6 days ago

        No no, not indentured servants, private prison work programs. Are you mad? Slaves and indentured servants opens them to laws that required them to provide them adequate housing, if they are labelled as prisoners it’s much easier to ignore them and keep them locked into the system.

    • Hikermick@lemmy.world
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      It’s gone on for a long time. The US housing collapse was due in part to this, banks gave home loans to people who couldn’t afford them. Why? Because as soon as the mortgage loan was signed those banks would sell the debt to investment banks who would bundle them and sell them off to investors.