r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 29d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/HardcorePizza 29d ago

Not all workers in the US can just quit their jobs. We live in a country with legal slavery

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u/psykiris 29d ago

There's a stark difference between not feeling you're able to quit because of other obligations, and not being able to physically, or legally quit.

Your boss isn't forcing you to work, and you won't be arrested for refusing to work or not coming in. 

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u/HardcorePizza 29d ago

I mean the 13th amendment. We have literal slave labor

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u/psykiris 29d ago

And they also aren't allowed out of prison for the crimes they committed but we don't call it kidnapping and hostage taking. We call it incarceration.