Is slavery no longer an economically viable option?

[DonFerrari]

richardhutnik said:

DonFerrari said:

Perhaps we should persuase people to voluntarize... it's even cheapier than slavery.

Owwww, wait, some people already had this absurd idea; work for less than food and shelter, prepoterous.

In the case of the arts, where you have musicians, actors, or other forms of arts, and there is a promise of making it big, plus people are drawn, or feel a need to do it, people will work for free.  Same goes with professional athletes.  Look also at the number of levels created for something like LittleBigPlanet to.  Free concent.

Throw in also here people who seek Internships, to be able to get sufficient experience, to land work.  Businesses use interns.  I have an employment place that wants to try to land myself an internship doing low level data entry work, on the belief maybe it will lead to a job somewhere.  This happens.  Shoot, I have been doing pro-bono work for multiple years now, due to lack of paid work.  If I don't have this, I have a gap in my resume.

It happens.

Sure it happens... i wasn't even criticizing who do this... just said it's cheapier to have a volunteer (intern, or other forms of non-payed employee) than a slave. And better yet, it's acceptable. (And charity is different than intern, I don't like the idea of obligation to work for free to make a resumè... it's exploration, some degrees your "intern" is done with a nice paycheck, this free internship is vicious cycle).