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Okay but increasing unemployment is meant to do exactly what this petty oligarch wants: discipline labor, preventing workers (that's us) from eking out a little more from a very lopsided economic system.

Marx referred to the unemployed aa the reserve army of labor for capital. The bourgeois use it to say: "Want safer conditions? Enough money to pay rent and go to the doctor? Tough shit, there are hundreds of people I can call on to take your job."

The unemployment rate is carefully curated by the capitalist class to prevent low rates and their worst nightmare, full employment.

The bourgeoisie are class conscious and act in their own interest. We should do the same.

Something should happen to those CEOs.

Something.

It's me. I'm the gadget.

He's a union man so you could've done a lot worse

Using a USB device might work well for this! You can do basically exactly what you want but your whole OS is on a USB drive. You'll get native performance for everything except disk read/write. If you use a fast device with a fast USB interface you might not even notice.

There are a few that are nice.

QEMU-based options work well. Boxes for GNOME uses this.

My backup option is always virtualbox with guest additions installed.

Arnock, on the night of his joining

Capitalism, in a mature and productive form, usually prefers wage labor, actually. It incentivizes the establishment of a working class, and that class is now global due to capitalism's simultaneous establishment and conquest of all states.

A slave class is bound by a relation other than wage labor, like being tied to land, a feudal lord, or aristocracy. Capital wants all the stuff those alternative ruling classes have, it breaks up and reforms e.g. feudal relations so that it may own the land and employ (exploit) laborers (by its nature).

Of course, elements of other systems remain even after capitalism became dominant and capital finds ways to either incorporate or destroy them.

Anti-blackness served and still serves a useful purpose of marginalization and division, mirroring its origins in preventing uprisings like Bacon's Rebellion from reiccurring by pitting everyone against black people. Marginalization creates space by which oppression is made tolerable to most.

Slave labor is maintained in the margins for several reasons (in the US). Obviously it's cheap forced labor, you can make a lot of money off of that in the right circumstances. In this case, a feudal-capital-state fusion wherein private companies get low costs, those who run prisons or otherwise directly benefit get little kickback fiefdoms (monopolies in which to impose the social relation of slavery), and the state bears the costs, acting as an agent of the other two powers while also finding its own uses for the project, namely the ability to disable any group that organizes against them, even make their labor work at odds with their projects. The state is primarily an agent of the true ruling class, but there needs to be specific mechanisms by which that occurs.

Anyways, capitalism, like industrial capitalism, would usually trend against a slavery relationship. But it will tolerate and even promote pockets of it as part of intertwining systems of control that maintain its own dominance. In this case, a modestly self-sustaining marginalization machine predicated on (re)creating race itself and racial divisions created in support of the chattel slavery system, now repurposed to both maintain and control underclasses the system requires. Hyperexploitation exists in the United States, but it's reserved for those whose ability to organize against it has been broken (more accurately, capitalism reacted successfully to those organizing against it, so the system was maintained). Undocumented immigrants and black people, predominantly.

You're definitely right that working conditions are deteriorating in the imperial core and with arrangements that many people characterize as neo-feudal. For example, the gig economy where the employer vs. employee relation is changed into monopoly holder (apps and finance behind Uber, say) vs. impoverished "contractor". I would say these things are actually a form of reproletarianization of a deeply propagandizdd working class that has otherwise failed to recognize its own exploitation, and us grasping for terminology to use to describe the loss of the social democratic arrangement. A mobile, insecure labor force was and is the standard during capital-led industrialization, with employment irregular, needing to move every season or every few years. That's not feudalistic. That's how the proletariat suffers. Maybe most importantly, the gig economy is just a mediation of one party paying the other for a service and the whole thing ia built on a financialized housw of cards that will fail if they don't obtain absolute monopoly status. The mediation isn't actually that valuable or complex in terms of what the company provides, it's only valuable in that it may create a natural monopoly via the network effect ("I'm on Facebook because everyone else is'). In the US, these companies are starting to reach financial limits due to the increasing costs of debt, and are consequently raising prices rather than keeping them lower than they can sustain in order to increase market share. Thia disrupts their entire business model and they will fail during the next financial crisis. Basically, what I'm trying to get at is that the gig economy is really just a financialized tech bubble that will pop as soon as infinite debt is unavailable, which will eventually happen.

Why do you want to do this? If it's just to try out different distributions, I would suggest using per-distro virtual machines or USB drives instead.

It is a literal substitute for slavery in the US, drawing a direct historical line back to Jim Crow and the dismantling of reconstruction by a reascendant Southern ruling class - former slave owners recreating slavery-like conditions for black people (prison labor and tenant farming). The thirteenth amendment specifically excluded prison labor from the abolition of slavery.

Prison labor continues to be racialized - along with the entire criminal punishment system.

Our good friend Joe Biden's primary legislative legacy is in shoring up that system via the Crime Bill.

Oh no, the precious "economy"!