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I'd say it's not even only a racial issue (but predominately was/is in the United States), but a socioeconomic one, with racial correlations.

There are plenty of modern day indentured servitude exploitations afoot: the leaked internal Amazon documents about it being business policy to keep engineering hires for less than two years, while preserving managers who fire them, is an example that springs to mind.



Is it still the case that Amazon gives new hires a hiring bonus that has to be paid back if they don't stay at the company for a set amount of time? If you're also targeting fresh college grads...

That's not exactly indentured servitude but it's too close to the Island of Pleasure (Pinocchio) for my comfort.


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