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rexpop • today at 7:31 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Why don't we enforce labor laws? Why is it legally permitted to do business with slavers?


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paimapi • today at 8:16 PM

Years of corporation-favoring jurisprudence. Our laws protect the interests of capital, not human rights.

A wise man once said, "Laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation. It's just the promise of violence that's enacted, and the police are basically an occupying army."

See:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/supreme-court-narrows-...

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/u-s-supreme-court-...