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Comparing Worryfree And The Prison Industrial Complex In Sorry To Bother

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America has big conglomerate companies, such as Amazon, that promote work over life with cafeterias onsite, couches, pools, tennis courts, bean bag chairs, and more. Cinema often mirrors reality, and the world we live in. The movie Sorry to Bother You mirrors the impending effect of America’s late-stage capitalism through the dystopian company WorryFree. The viewer's introduction to WorryFree is through their commercial seen through Cassius’s eyes, which promotes Cinema as Mirror and Spectatorship through hyper-capitalist greed and inhumanity. Through the mise-en-scene, the bright colors and furnishings of WorryFree’s housing and uniforms oppose the dystopian reality of WorryFree as a company. As Cassius watches the WorryFree commercial, …show more content…

Factory towns and the Prison Industrial Complex are similar, both have employment for life and guaranteed housing. The difference between factory towns and the Prison Industrial Complex is that factory towns are voluntary and participation in the Prison Industrial Complex is forced. Prisoners are sentenced to life in prison depending on the severity of the crime. A clause in the 13th amendment to the US Constitution, bans slavery, but allows slavery or involuntary servitude if a criminal is convicted as a punishment. Prisoners are forced to work for pennies, all day, for the rest of their life. Factory towns are voluntary, but advertise themselves as a place to live and work, which attracts migrating workers into predatory contracts. These contracts force workers to work long hours in exchange for little pay, or tokens that are used as payment in the town. WorryFree functions are similar to the prison environment working within the Prison Industrial Complex because the workers are in uniform all day and every day, even in bed, similar to a prison. WorryFree workers also work long hours for little pay, and their labor is cheap, like in the Prison Industrial Complex. Prisons are also overcrowded with inmates with blocks being overwhelmed, similar to WorryFree stuffing workers into a small bedroom, putting 12 workers per bedroom. WorryFree also profits off of their workers’ labor, the same way that the Prison Industrial Complex profits off the prisoners’ labor. WorryFree is also a private company trying to make a profit, the same way that the majority of private prisons that participate in the Prison Industrial Complex are profiting off the justice system and the 13th amendment. WorryFree is only similar to Factory towns because workers sign up to work and live there, but the comparisons

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