To the owner of @Nike, Phil Knight
How about I book plane tickets for us and let's fly to China together.
We can try to visit these SLAVE labor camps and you can see it with your own eyes.
@KingJames
@Jumpman23
you guys are welcome to come too.
Can’t imagine Kanter will last much longer in the NBA at this rate
I was never good at school because of tests but i gotby due to assignments, barely. My point is I don't have any skill am shit at learning. At 29 i feel my time to change anything is coming to an end, so i just want to see what minimal options i have.
Edit: currently working 60+ hours. So yes i am working.
And it sucks.
As many of you know, the US is #1 in jailing its citizens!! Yay.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rate
Due to the pandemic, we've had even fewer people arrested in the last few years. (I chalk it up to fewer police involved interactions due to not leaving the house for some.) But, what will the decrease in #s mean for the reliance on free labor and for those of us not caught up in the system? Will this motivate politicians to make even more laws, and cracks, to booster the prison population numbers? We are messing with their $$ after all, and that will make greedy people unscrupulous if we've learned anything from history and human nature.
The longer that little-to-no pay labor is in our prisons the more precarious the anti-work movement feels. I read that they even charge so much for some of the items inside the prison systems that the ones that do get paid a wage many times find themselves in debt when they leave prison.
We've got to starve this financial system, and stat. Don't stop them from working if they like, but pay them what is due. Otherwise, if we say we won't work, of course they will say "starve". When we starve we are motivated to work outside the system, and commit a crime to simply exist.
Do that, and BOOM! They got your free labor and you're thrown in a hole without a voice.
Editted 4 grammer.
It's a lie, there are plenty of available workers, workers just refuse to accept poverty wages, the price has gone up for our labor and employers don't want to pay.
Every other aspect of running a business increased, rent, electricity, gas, raw materials, etc but for some reason they don't believe the wages would increase? They are delusional and want to continue paying the poverty wages so they call it a labor shortage so the rest of society builds a stigma about the unemployed, they want to convince everyone else that the unemployed are just lazy.
Stop helping them by saying "labor shortage" as if it's a real thing, it's not, it's a slave shortage.
This comment was just casually dropped into polite conversation during a thanksgiving visit.
Where does this come from? Is this true? (I think it’s easily proven false).
Frankly, I’m tired of extremism and I am still wheeling from this comment.
I know that if I confronted the comment, someone (not me) would have become angered to tears and I would be called stupid and an evil defender of capitalism.
Help.
Edit: thank you all for commenting on this. I have a clearer understanding and I’m not as emotionally triggered as when I first posted it.
Learning about all types of slavery instead of just chattel slavery in the USA is very important.
This is an enlightening discussion from all angles - especially those with the cool heads.
Recently a new law passed banning imports from Xinjiang province (where many Uighers are being interred in forced labor camps) unless the goods imported are proven to not be from slave labor.
Should this burden of proof be extended to other regions or industries with high incidence of slave labor (I have in mind chocolate, seafood, minerals)? Does the US do enough to prevent slave labor in the products we import in such industries?
Should the US sanction countries with a large amount of human trafficking and forced labor (such as the UAE)?
Hey, so my friend said this was an interesting idea and that I should post here. I thought about a world in which yea, ghosts are real. They are like poltergeists in the sense of being able to interact with the physical world. When you die, you will become a ghost. But your life hasn't exactly come to an end yet. You will be put to good use with your incorporeal form, and do some ghostly labor. If you lived a life as a good person, you will be used as recon, adventuring to different planets to collect data. If you have been considered an evil person, you will be put to physical work. You might be put to work turning hand cranks and supplying the planet with energy 24/7, or a couple hundred of you might push a spaceship so there's no need for fuel. After all, you're a ghost right? Free energy is free energy. I also kind of wondered if this kind of idea has been done in fiction before, if you have please let me know where! What are your thoughts?
Well, we are "wage slaves." "Unskilled labor" is just another way of saying "a job for poor slaves."
They don't say it to say the job is easy, they say it because it's a job they see as beneath them. Nobody with compassion calls it "unskilled labor."
I'm having a difficult time researching which brands are using slave labor, which aren't, and which foods/products are probably using slave labor if they don't have a brand, like food at a restaurant or something.
Anyone know of a big list or cheat sheet?
Seeing images of his shoes saying end modern slavery and calling out companies like Nike, which I love, makes me worried he's going to get cut off from the nba.
#cancelSanta
Does Gini not take into account migrant workers? Wouldn't that make the measure totally invalid if so? Apparently 7m of the 9m people in the UAE in 2013 were migrant workers.
GF and I made flour tortillas from scratch last night and it went surprisingly well! We eat them all the time, so I figured it would be worth it to make our own from now on. I've looked around online, and I can't find any cast iron tortilla presses that aren't made in China. I don't often shop around thrift stores or anywhere in person, really, but I did check eBay and Craigslist for used items and was disappointed to see them flooded with international resellers. Any recommendations?
