Reply #485: What compassion? There's nothing compassionate about indentured servitude

[Raineyb]

what you're proposing is one very tiny step up from slavery. And I do mean tiny. I'll grant that they won't be cutting off people's feet to keep them from running away but other than that what you're describing is akin to slavery and I can't believe you have the nerve to think you're being compassionate. I think you should look up the word. While you're at it look up "company store" and "optional" It's not really all that optional if you're dangling the very basics of what people need to live over their heads in exchange for "volunteering" to work.

And look up volunteering too while you're at it.