Doc Dutch (01-25-2022)
Doc Dutch (01-25-2022)
There's also indentured servitude, a voluntary slavery. Since that's not what they agreed to due, you're right, it's just servitude AKA slavery.
https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetec...nts-in-the-us/
Indentured servants first arrived in America in the decade following the settlement of Jamestown by the Virginia Company in 1607.
The idea of indentured servitude was born of a need for cheap labor. The earliest settlers soon realized that they had lots of land to care for, but no one to care for it. With passage to the Colonies expensive for all but the wealthy, the Virginia Company developed the system of indentured servitude to attract workers. Indentured servants became vital to the colonial economy.
The timing of the Virginia colony was ideal. The Thirty Year's War had left Europe's economy depressed, and many skilled and unskilled laborers were without work. A new life in the New World offered a glimmer of hope; this explains how one-half to two-thirds of the immigrants who came to the American colonies arrived as indentured servants.
Servants typically worked four to seven years in exchange for passage, room, board, lodging and freedom dues. While the life of an indentured servant was harsh and restrictive, it wasn't slavery. There were laws that protected some of their rights. But their life was not an easy one, and the punishments meted out to people who wronged were harsher than those for non-servants. An indentured servant's contract could be extended as punishment for breaking a law, such as running away, or in the case of female servants, becoming pregnant.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
We have learned something new about both McGinnis and Nelson. Nelson hired Duane McCreary to investigate McGinnis back in 2018, and has been trying to get rid of McGinnis ever since. McGinnis has been known for misusing truancy court. He curses at children, refuses to allow children to defend themselves against charges, and makes up fake laws. Oh, and McGinnis is quite definitely a Republican.
Non compete clauses always felt a little like indentured servitude to me. They are restricted, but those restrictions are getting looser and looser. There are actually fast food workers working for minimum wage being required to sign non compete clauses... That is just not right.
Biden has ordered an investigation of where non compete clauses are. He is not moving on it yet, but working out how to move on it.
These people did not sign a non compete clause, but some judge decided they might as well have.
Excessive non compete clauses have been found to be a violation of the 13th Amendment, and basically slavery.
A judge literally ruled that if these workers want to earn a living, they have to work for ThedaCare. He then openly admitted that it was all part of a scheme to force employers to work out what salaries to let people get. It is an attempt to ban market forces from working in favor of employees.
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