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[–] grey_maniac@lemmy.ca 45 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Why stop at subminimum wage? They should give people the option to work for free as, what do you call that again? Oh yeah, slaves. Republicans like the idea of those, right?

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No need to do that, they can alresdy put you in prisonon some bogus charge and make you do ~~free labour~~ ... ~~forced labour~~ ... slavery.

[–] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

The datacenters won't build themselves you know. Those billionaires are too poor to pay labor, so in prison you go, and you better work hard or it's the can for you.