[ExI] Chinese prisoners forced to do both physical and virtual labor

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Thu May 26 17:30:09 UTC 2011


2011/5/26 Tim Halterman wrote:
> Why do you find this disturbing?  Sounds more appealing than stamping
> license plates(US version) and leaps and bounds above mining (N Korea,
> Chinese? version).  They've constructed a market for these goods by
> providing them at such a low cost to the consumer, this low cost could not
> have been achieved in a minimum wage market like the US.
> Tim



US prison workers don't get minimum wage. They are lucky to get any wage at all.

That's one reason why the US has so many people in prison. It's slave labour.


BillK




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