I like the transition of forced labor in prisons (which exists) to being forced to slavery for recreational purposes by private companies ("recreational" refers to photos taken of a girl chained and gagged at her desk, and girls forced to work in skimpy outfits). What the story is missing (in my humble opinion) is how it got to the point that private companies got the (legal) power to be the judge, jury and executioner over people on/in their properties, as well as why that wasn't reverted. After all the story ends with "no one is truly safe", which suggests that this turn of events was in retrospect a very bad idea.





What pop's up in my head are reasons like:

1) The entire legal system is commercialized, and thereby gone totally corrupt.

2) It is only now surfacing how wide-spread the abuse of "corporate settlements" is, because the settlements contain a secrecy clause so the victims are forced to keep silent about their woes.

3) The general public indifferent, because they (wrongly) believe this only happens to immoral women.

