Wondering if anyone in the incoming administration will argue that companies can retain their undocumented migrant workers if they can petition their states to re-classify them as property. Or am I being way too paranoid?

November 28, 2024 - 20:32 UTC

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JFC they're going to do this, aren't they?
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They have already done it with the private prisons. Prisoners get paid 10 cents per day. See John Oliver's episodes on private prisons and the court processes that enable that...
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I really really didn’t want my pinned comment to come true. It was meant to be a Swiftian comment. Like his essay, a modest proposal.
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bsky.app/profile/trevondlogan.bsky.social/post/3lta3rt2cck2e
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So is that being paranoid?
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I think you’re right on the nose.
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FUCK
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No you’re not being paranoid

Also there’s “one weird trick”:
prison labor
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Indeed.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_patrol

naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/origins-modern-day-policing
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Actually, I think it is more insidious than that. The workers will be arrested, detained, then rented out to the farmers and manufacturers as cheap "not technically slave" labor.
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Exactly. Just enough plausible deniability to avoid universal revulsion
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Wait and see. Paranoid is a good plan when trump goes to war.
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Too historically validated. The Constitution is predicated on that concept, now partially corre red.
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Probably not too paranoid
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Oh hell no you're not. The orange goon, I'm sure, as using that line of thought already.
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That's dystopian, but the current situation is dystopian, so...
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Sadly probably correct. I think they are going to build mass camps and use as labor. Seems like somewhere they did that. I don’t think it ended well for any involved. The true test will be how long will people stand by.
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He actually said this about letting farmers be responsible for workers. A sly way of saying ownership.
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the is no need for companies to petition the states to retain their undocumented migrant workers to reclassify them as property because that is essentially the de jure way the system functions now

companies get the upside of profits and almost no downside

mainemill.org/learn/for-teachers/child-labor/
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Truth
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To understand the shit going down now, but also the resistance to it, in a global historical perspective, check out my latest book, which the substack posting below describes.

annajanemcintyre.substack.com/p/reading-humans-the-300000-year-struggle
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That’s dark. Because they’ve probably thought of that
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