Post #4174411
2026-07-28 14:59 UTC
…“And by day they pray to the good Lord Jesus Christ, and then at night they are sent to work as part of their rehabilitation on the chicken production line, where they don’t have to be insured.
They might lose a finger or suffer repetitive strain injury, but this is part of their penance for having fallen, for having become addicts…
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@urlyman@mastodon.social 2026-07-28 15:01
…“And we thought this is a really interesting mirroring of the first colonial encounters in the New World where indigenous people were also enslaved and made to work for most of the week, and then on Sunday pray to Jesus. Here the relationship, the time coding is slightly different but the object is exactly the same. You’re using people who are incarcerated literally to be able to work for you for free, and so there’s an example of cheap work…