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I have bad news for you about the indentured servitude that immediately replaced slavery in the colonies
by jrflowers · Oct 8, 2026
The messengers come from the political party that freed America from the worst abuses of slavery. It still exists today, and I regret that H2A workers are not more represented i…
by kittikitti · Oct 8, 2026
> they will use that lack of response to then go and replace American workers with what is effectively foreign indentured servants Wait but PERM process is precisely for getting…
by kpw94 · Oct 8, 2026
Cool theory. But there are confounding factors: H1B employees get exploited like a species of indentured servants. Lazy managers like that they are compliant and happy to implem…
by Zigurd · Oct 8, 2026
Once you have a green card you also are not indentured anymore :)
by thatfrenchguy · Oct 8, 2026
Aren't a lot of these companies with H1Bs not sponsoring the green card anyway for some reason? I wonder if this will be the first of many. I always found it weird that the comp…
by bradlys · Oct 8, 2026
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An indenture is a legal contract that reflects an agreement between two parties. Although the term is most familiarly used to refer to a labor contract between an employer and a laborer with an indentured servant status, historically indentures were used for a variety of contracts, including transfers and rents of land and even peace agreements between rulers. Read more on Wikipedia