1. Crackpot theory about the concentration camp system for the Uighurs (and Kazakhs) and its expansion to other minorities.

2. In classical Marxism, wages are low during industrialization because villages act as a reserve army of low-paid labor.

3. When industrialization advances enough that the reserve army is depleted, wages rise, as happened in the UK starting around 1850.

4. In China this happened in the last decade - the reserve army was depleted and companies raised wages, e.g. after the Foxconn suicides.

5. Enter the Domar serfdom model: slavery is a feature of societies where labor is scarce, enabling owners to extract surplus.

6. In Domar, this is a feature of large-scale agriculture. But why not large-scale industry?

7. In democracies, such impulses are restrained by the political power of workers and of people worried about enslavement.

8. But China has no democracy, and scrupulously keeps the slavery to ethnic minorities who the Han majority doesn't identify with.

9. Similarly, collaborationist first-world firms like VW are politically protected, as Uighurs have no political voice in the first world.

10. So all these firms profit from slave labor. And the PRC is corporatist, with a what's-good-for-Huawei-is-good-for-China mentality.

11. Slavery is in the interest of firms using cheaper workers, just as it was in that of plantation owners in antebellum America. /end