yogthos

Looks like I got my Kimi subscription just in time.

The amount of mental gymnastics you're doing to justify the amount of SLAVE LABOR in the US is truly incredible. And couple that with one of the highest rates of incarceration in the world, that really tells us all we need to know about the state of human rights.

The original context here was human rights in China, and what we see is that the US both has far higher prison population per capita, and that it is being as slave labor which is a significant factor in certain sectors of the economy.

Your whole argument about the percentage overall economy is nonsensical because most of the US economy is not actual productive economy. It's ephemeral stuff like service industry, entertainment, and software development. Obviously, you're not going to force prisoners to go on Joe Rogan podcasts. But when it comes actually producing things, 17% of the industry being done by slave labor is obviously very significant.