Well this makes the situation make more sense. How could you possibly make a profit setting up these factories in America without the use of essentially slave labor?
The prison industrial complex: hold my beer
Police: Arrest you for having an open beer in public
Judge: sentences you to prison
The PIC: 🤑
All the soulless companies that employ temporary tech workers in the US for the mega corporations here just collectively got erections. This is their goal.
I think the story neuromancer had workers who would show up have their brain chip turn them into meat puppets for 8 hours then they would wake up not knowing what they had done to earn their checks. It was a cheap labor scheme for day workers or prostitutes. I still think that’s really the capitalist goal.
Is this Severance or are you talking about something else?
Something else, very similar motif. It’s a sci-fi pulp novel.