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By the yardstick that both the CIA and the IMF have adopted as the single best measure of national economies, China now has the largest economy in the world. (nationalinterest.org)

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[–] HorseRabbit@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Weird and racist.

Also doesn't the US actually have a vast slave labour force? Aren't 1 in 15 black men in for profit prisons making fucking licence plates or pudding or whatever.

[–] l0tusc0bra@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Hillary had actual ~~slaves~~ extremely cheap prisoner-servants at the governor's mansion.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 3 months ago

She's truly the Founding Mother, just late.

[–] 666@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Am remembering that my participating in government teacher had a picture of himself posing with actual Hillary Clinton on a framed photo on his desk.

A ghoul memento. And a lesson in P.I.G.

[–] SinoSoviet_Drip@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago

✨historic✨

[–] AnarchoAnarchist@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

https://maltajusticeinitiative.org/12-major-corporations-benefiting-from-the-prison-industrial-complex-2/

Making frozen McDonald's hamburgers, working in call centers for Verizon and Sprint, making jeans and fancy panties, and taking reservations for American airlines.

Not to mention the work farms that produce food, raise and process cattle.

A typical American, over the course of a week, consumes several products and utilizes several services that are reliant on prison slave labor.

[–] simply_surprise@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Unnecessarily pedantic point: for-profit prisons are less common (though they exist). The companies that scalp money from the prisoners for goods and services, and the companies that "pay" them for labor are all for profit.