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[–] plinky@hexbear.net 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

meh, i think poor laws is the closest analogue, there is no right of conquest or kids being born into it. debt prisons as well, with debt being non-equity holder in modern world, apparently

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] plinky@hexbear.net 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

it's more not to downplay slavery horrors tbh, surely those prisons will be sight of many beatings and so on, yet they still wouldn't approach the depravity of chattel slavery.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago

Sure, but there's clearly a trajectory here.

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You don't have to have chattel slavery for it to be slavery, the way enslaved people were treated as livestock by Americans was historically uniquely horrific

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

well, anglobrain associates american slavery in their brain with that word (and haiti weren't americans). roman slavery or tribe war-related slavery were different from chattel slavery, but we have same word for them. while something like peasantry in russia was skirting very close to it

[–] Busgirl@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How exactly would children not be born into it?

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

cause they would be stolen before by adoption/foster care. no, cause they aren't financial assets on the books nor funneled into the system by itself, rather by material position

[–] Busgirl@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] plinky@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

on larger and probabilistic outcome scale it would be kinda sorta comparable (if these laws get implemented that is), but still the comparison makes me icky shrug-outta-hecks the class reasoning is also very different

[–] Busgirl@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago