The Prison Industrial Complex
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Nicole Parsons
in reply to Erich Champion • • •Republican billionaires are deeply opposed to paid work, & deeply in favor of unpaid labor.
Imagine the economic impacts of a fully reconstituted global slavery system.
The Tech industry, & its financiers, has become too accustomed to becoming billionaires based on wage suppression:
1. Unpaid content on social media
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2. Unpaid overtime by employees
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Top French newspapers sue X for unpaid use of their content
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3. "Something for nothing" data sharing with...well...anyone who wants your data
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4. Underpaid labor from the undocumented
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5. Unpaid societal labor by women
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Elon Musk apologizes for Tesla workers paid just $5 an hour by subcontractor
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6. Underpaid labor by immigrants & POC
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7. Uncompensated taxpayers
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8. Nearly free VC funding. Apparently, it never occurred to tech bros to ask why MBS was suddenly investing billions in their companies in 2018 after some conversations with Kushner.
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Photos: The Saudi Crown Prince met with tech VIPs this week in Silicon Valley, including Sergey Brin and Magic Leap’s CEO
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$3 billion a day in fossil fuel industry profits buys an end to any democracy threatening a fossil fuel phase-out. Voter suppression through felony disenfranchisement.
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Never discount the catastrophic impacts of slave labor economics.
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When Musk talks "efficiency"...
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Prisons and Class Warfare: An Interview with Ruth Wilson Gilmore
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