Peonage for Trump
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I have written before about the two awful days I spent working for a high-pressure door-to-door vacuum sales company. I now have to give the people in charge of that particular mobile boiler room credit for one and only one thing: the van they drove around in, while as I found out as my last shift ended had thousands of dollars of unpaid parking tickets, also had seats with seatbelts and stuff like that there:
“I was in shock and disbelief,” says a paid door knocker flown to Michigan to help turn out the vote for former president Donald Trump on behalf of Elon Musk’s America PAC.
In Michigan, canvassers and paid door knockers for the former president, contracted by a firm associated with America PAC, have been subjected to poor working conditions: A number of them have been driven around in the back of a seatless U-Haul van, according to video obtained by WIRED, and threatened that their lodging at a local motel wouldn’t be paid for if they didn’t meet canvassing quotas. One door knocker alleges that they didn’t even know they were signing up for anything having to do with Musk or Trump.
We were even free to leave at the end of the shift if we didn’t sell anything.
In retrospect, it’s kind of amazing that Elon wasn’t a huge MAGA guy from the git — the two are absolute soul mates.