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21seasons | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Is it better to be 50% slave with 50% of your productivity stolen or 100% slave but with 10% of your productivity stolen 🤔
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Cyph3rp9nk | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I don't think you have visited the Arab Emirates.
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21seasons | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Correct. I've just heard stories about the slave like conditions when people were working on the on the construction projects etc. in Arab Emirates. If you're the tourist there then the story is different.
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Cyph3rp9nk | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I have not been there as a tourist, I have been there for work.

As for the working conditions of the people who work in construction, it is not slavery as they sell it, I also see it in Europe, they are just underpaid.

In Europe, especially in the southern countries, the same thing happens with the people who work in the fields, the seasonal workers.