Anytime a sane person mentions the reality that military conscription is forced labor under vile conditions and therefore slavery, the person is almost always met with "but soldiers got paid." The bizarre response comes from the term "free labor" and the assumptions that follow. "Free" (to them) means no labor costs, thus the opposite of "free" is "paid", therefore the problem with slavery was the amount of compensation involved. But of course running a plantation is expensive, the main reason rich people were more likely to own slaves than poor people. This allows the culprit to be money,...
















