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Comment Re:This has been getting worse since CoViD. (Score 1) 85

There is a really good podcast series by The Economist on this called "Scam, Inc.". I highly recommend listening to the whole thing. No paywall. It mentions that if the (imprisoned/slave) workers doing the scamming don't scam enough, they are physically beaten on the head with a baseball bat, or have electric shocks to their scrotum, or chili sauce inserted up their rear end. For women, if they don't perform well enough scamming they can get sent "upstairs" to another floor where they are forced to work as cam girls.

It also mentions that they are traded between businesses like real slaves. They all operate on compounds that contain multiple hyper specialized scamming operations, and other facilities needed for a whole company town. They usually don't ever leave the compound, but can be sent to work at a different scamming business on the compound.

Scarily enough, it mentions if you have any tech skills, that you have virtually no chance of escaping because you are too valuable.

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