Reply #14: Don't think of it as slavery, think of it as an "employment covenant" [View All]

[DuctapeFatwa]

Everything has tradeoffs, and just as the maquiladora workers have to give up a few things like being able to have or live with their families, submit to corporal punishment or a little sexual contact now and again, they have job security, and enough food to get them back to their machine the next day, and most companies provide medical care for immediate job-related injuries of a life-threatening nature, and just take the cost out of the employees paycheck if he recovers, all the while providing a place to sleep and the same food.

Considering that the globally competitive wage is right around fifty cents a day, once savings accounts are exhausted, IRA's cashed out, houses sold and proceeds spent, that employment covenant will start to look a lot better than it does today!