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Rounding up minorities to work in labour camps is likewise intrinsically abusive. Again, the argument you're trying to build is based on chattel slavery being excessively abusive the way it was practised in US. This implies that you don't actually have an issue with the concept in general, just as long as slaves aren't abused excessively. Hence, US prison system today is not comparable.
I love how you further go on to minimize the scale of the US prison labour system. Entire state economies are now based around it. In the United States today there are more prisoners than farmers.
You keep on digging though.
And here's where you're making a mistake. You're drawing all sorts of inferences to put words in my mouth. I don't know if you're just a spiteful individual, but it's a pattern of behavior.
I can only infer what you mean based on what you say. In the entirety of this thread the only criticism you've managed to come up with for chattel slavery is that it's exceptionally abusive.
Nowhere do you address the fundamental issue that chattel slavery shares with capitalism which is the domination of one set of individuals by another.