It might be of interest to know that in England certainly and I believe in the USA and Australia and qute probably other places, people serving jail sentences are given "useful work" to occupy them and are paid a pittance a day, enough to buy the crap, expensive cgarettes in the jail if they´re lucky. They make road signs, for example, and other things for the government but the idea has been floated to sell their labour to private companies. This is already slavery and the rich are getting in on it in yet an other way.

In addition, I have written a relevant-ish song last year, to an Irish slip-jig (9-8) called The Disused Railway. My song is called

             Come the Global Calamity
by Paul Spencer

1. Waching telly hypnotically,
Spending money neurotically,
Making choices robotically,
Turning into a slave,
School to make me employable,
Work to make me reliable,
Just when life gets enjoyable,
Lay me into my grave.

Chorus:
Come the global calamity,
Markets crashing dramatically,
Final show of insanity,
Time to start anew,
People starving to death,
Even over here in the West,
And you won´t have time for a breath,
But we´ll all have something to do.

2. Life is easy n benefit,
Drinking beer for the fun of it,
Smoking weed for the zen of it,
Nearly dying on smack.
Try to stand on my feet,
But I find there´s nothing to eat,
And it´s cold out here on the street,
So I soon come grovelling back.

chorus

3. Spend the day on the phone,
Like a dull mechanical drone,
And I might as well be alone,
´Cause I´ve got no time for a chat.
Work till 6 and then leave,
With a lousy wage for teh week,
And I don´tknow what I´ve achieved,
But it nearly pays for my flat.

chorus

Sorry I couldn´t give anything that answers the question at the top of the thread.