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.
And as it turns out the “surplus population” isn’t really their concern, they just don’t want to acknowledge the poor, sick, and otherwise different.
Or the fact that their shareholder profit above all world created these “homeless” and all the drug abuse and lack of mental health services. The billionaires, corporations and politicians will do anything to avoid personal responsibility for their actions