alt Hacker NewsImprisoning people for years seems like a much worse thing to do to people than underpaying them for work they do while locked up.
Is it that the latter can be called "slavery" that makes people upset?
Imprisoning people for years seems like a much worse thing to do to people than underpaying them for work they do while locked up.
Is it that the latter can be called "slavery" that makes people upset?
There are a lot of incentives to lock people up. Cheap labor is one of them. We should support incentives such as "keeping society safe", but incentives such as "profits and cheap labor" are incentives that may actually incentivize locking up innocent people.
So it's not about which one is worse, it's about not supporting something that could lead to corruption or an unfair system.