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The institution of slavery never ended in the USA, it evolved.
Soon they will do end runs (moreso) around the prohibion on debtor's prisons and start locking people up for private debts again I bet, and it will evolve into indentured servitude, and being illegal to quit your job if you owe money on a plan, out on agreement with the lender.
Over ten years ago Utah did this already, sharks would buy distressed debt in the state for pennies on the dollar, unrecoverable debt, company sells 1 for .1 or whatever. They then file suit in the big city, in salt lake even as the defendant may live on the other side of the state. When they don't show up to court they get default judgement, and they get the judge to hold them in contempt, either right then and or later in a collection action. The judge has them held for I forget up to 90 days or something, if they pay they get released, or work out a deal with the claimant. After they are released they can just file another collection action. They get bills for being in jail too but that's another story.
Owing money to the state already gets you locked up, they treat everyone as choosing not to pay not that they don't have the money. But people will claim to be owed money, maybe even medical debt they buy for pennies on the dollar, and use it to enslave people, on the road we are heading.
That is just for starters, before they bind everyone to their jobs after people walk off their jobs en masse as they don't pay for life any longer. Unless something changes here and it sure appears we are trusting the establishment to run the opposition so nothing will change and it's a little late anyway and a hundred times harder now anyway.