Here’s the slavery speed run:
Step 1 - Mass layoffs + Tariffs lead to mass homelessness. Step 2 - Criminalize homelessness. Step 3 - Arrest/institutionalize the homeless in for profit prisons. Lend inmates to private corporations for forced labor. Step 4 - Profit.
Fun fact: the FOP are implicated in the crack epidemic (bonus points: working with the CIA, so feds and locals!), fent imports (yes, sacklers did it first, but did they do it
bestworst?), and illegal xanax imports!