I’d do overtime for bonus

    by Even_Farm2151

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    1. I’d rather not live in an economy/society where we have no choice but to unnecessarily labor our lives away, regardless of compensation.

    2. Nah I think it’s a legit fair question and interesting topic to think about.

      Picking cotton is hard, horrific, long, and painful.

      How much would have been enough to have people pick cotton without slaves, would the industry be profitable before the gin? Fun to discuss imo

    3. PissingOffACliff on

      I mean that’s kinda the point isn’t it? No one wanted to do the job for low wages. The plantation owners needed free labor.

      It’s hard labour in shit conditions, you could only force people to do the work.

      Though it is the kinda question where you’d be like the ‘who starts a conversation like that’ Peter Griffin meme.

    4. I have to to ask. Was my teacher the only one that did a “slave market” as a class exercise?? 8th grade back in the early 90s.

    5. Interesting-Dream863 on

      As soon as you get there you’ll find yourself chained and picking cotton to avoid a whip.

    6. Confederate: “Well that’s ain’t slavery no more, does it?! I want them to pick it for free.”

    7. dead_meme_comrade on

      Gotta be honest. Don’t think they were playing slaves.

      Also very very little I would not do for $200 an hour.

    8. NOIS_KillerWhaleTank on

      It’s weird how manual labour becomes attractive to people when you have both consent and compensation, things the slaves did not have.

    9. Someone in the public school system really wants to spend the rest of the semester on workers comp and they’re willing to get a broken leg over it

    10. let me guess… did some think tank or any other sort of public degenerate came to the conclusion that the lodging, food and other shit the slaves “received” in exchange for their life-long servitude amounted to $200 for an hour of work? and followed by “see how good they had it?”

      yeah, it could also be a perfectly innocent way to start the conversation.

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