false dichotomies and apologia for defacto slavery. sharecropping was just the technically legal jim crow system used by the south after their slaves got taken away. some of this nonsense is still practiced today   o-plate-inmate-labor-investigation- c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e your implication is that there is no alternative to slavery/sharecropping/underpaid illegal labor/etc. this is just propaganda from megacorps who don't want to pay good wages. they could crush this argument (and every union strike) by opening their books and proving they don't have the money to pay more. of course they never do that, because they do have the money to pay more. require all corporations to disclose their finances and watch the problems disappear. > inb4 muh competition if everyone is required to do it, nobody will suffer competitive disadvantage.
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