| When you pay a workforce a token wage, and their only freedom is to change from one slave wage job to another, those people are essentially slaves. |
| US corporations have time and time again used the CIA and even the US military to support small elite minorities in third world countries. These small oligarchies are essentially plantation owners who use terror and violence to coerce the majorities to work in sweatshops and factories under brutal conditions in order to provide US corporations with what is essentially a slave class.
Their freedom consists of their right to change from one plantation to another. Their pay is only token. For example, Jean Bertrand Aristide called for the minimum wage in Haiti to be raised from under 40 cents per day to $1 per day. Currently in Brazil, the minimum wage is 380 reais per month…roughly $200. That comes to about $1200 per year. And that is what the people who actually have a formal job are lucky enough to earn. They live in squatter communities called "favalas." These favalas are common in most large South American cities. When an honest election is held and a champion of the poor is elected, the US government has consistently supported with embargos (some would argue that they've sponsored using the CIA and/or military force) coups that have overthrown these elected leaders and replaced them with puppet governments that supported the plantation owners.
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