• sunzu
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    309 months ago

    Yes it does appear to be that way. Even when Congress does a good thing, it gets stalled or shut down.

    Can’t rely on elected officials to deliver proper laws, executive appears to be useless and judges will stop any progress.

    How many generations of this now 2 or 3?

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      159 months ago

      How many generations of this now 2 or 3?

      It’s been continuous since colonial times. It’s an unbroken thread from “indentured servitude” and “slavery,” to “sharecropping” and “vagrancy”/“convict leasing,” to “non-compete agreements” and prison labor being managed by prisons directly (instead of having inmates leased out).

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        79 months ago

        most people aint ready for this one lol

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          9 months ago

          To be fair, I wasn’t entirely happy with my comment either. There was something missing, and I just figured out what it was.

          Along with “sharecropping” I should’ve mentioned “sweatshops,” and along with “non-compete agreements” I should’ve mentioned anti-union laws like “right-to-work” and “at-will employment.”