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It didn't end, it was just outsourced (Original Post)
Scuba
May 2013
OP
One of capitalism pillars is finding new people to exploit to expand profits.
Arctic Dave
May 2013
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Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)1. One of capitalism pillars is finding new people to exploit to expand profits.
Notice how they always, always move to countries that are full of people in poverty.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)3. Not to worry - the GOP is working hard to bring all those jobs home.
Just as soon as they get rid of the unions, and the OSHA regulations, and the child labor laws, minimum wage....etc...etc...
daleo
(21,317 posts)4. Strange how international terrorism and international capitalism
Look so much alike at times.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)5. K&R nt
BainsBane
(53,074 posts)6. Actually slavery is thriving in the US
and I don't mean paltry wages but actual bondage, where someone owns another human being. Enslaved women, girls, and boys are used in the sex industry, in manufacturing, and in domestic service. There are more people enslaved today that at any point in human history.
http://www.state.gov/j/tip/what/
http://www.antislavery.org/english/slavery_today/what_is_modern_slavery.aspx
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)7. Prison labor is slavery too
Anyone ever bother to READ the 13th Amendment?
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
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xchrom
(108,903 posts)8. Du rec. Nt