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Slavery Was Never Abolished – It Affects Millions, and You May Be Funding It

posted by mrpg on Friday October 19 2018, @02:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the or-suffering-it dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Phys.org:

When we think of slavery, many of us think of historical or so-called "traditional forms" of slavery – and of the 12m people ripped from their West African homes and shipped across the Atlantic for a lifetime in the plantations of the Americas.

But slavery is not just something that happened in the past –- the modern day estimate for the number of men, women and children forced into labour worldwide exceeds 40m. Today's global slave trade is so lucrative that it nets traffickers more than US$150 billion each year.

The article asserts that much of today's slavery is being driven by the demand for electronic goods.

[Edit: fixed ILO links]

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  • (Score: 0, Redundant) by khallow on Friday October 19 2018, @04:47PM (5 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday October 19 2018, @04:47PM (#751009) Journal
    Looks like you got the wrong person's ignorance on your sleeve. Let's actually read your link.

    Corporate supremacists love the pain they inflict on immigrants and locals because it weakens the largest obstacle to their global authoritarianism: workers.

    A steady stream of immigrants means a steady stream of competition for jobs. Workers generate profit for multinational corporations, and the cheaper a company’s labor costs are, the more profit is left over for the corporate supremacists at workers’ expense.

    What the corporate supremacists don’t tell their victims is how hard life can be north of the border. They don’t talk about the permanent temp workers who live in closet-sized apartments despite working long, exhausting hours in warehouses. Some workers don’t even know their employer’s name, so they have no chance of protesting for better working conditions and higher wages. Those protests wouldn’t earn millions of dollars in funding.

    A typical dumbshit fantasizing about imaginary villains and conflicts. Smuggling on any of the US borders has been a thing for almost a century since Prohibition started (and given that's the author is talking about the Mexican border, one can add another century on to that to include such things as Comanche Indian raids). It's no more "corporate" now than it was then. They certainly don't hold to some imaginary doctrine that corporations (whatever that's supposed to be) should somehow be supreme in some aspect of society.

    Boy, I hope you're trolling. Because otherwise life is going to be harder for you just due to those utterly stupid beliefs.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @05:20PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @05:20PM (#751029)

    Interesting, so how many illegals does khallow have in his closet? Do you have a different slave for every day of the week or do you take Sundays off?

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday October 19 2018, @05:26PM (3 children)

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday October 19 2018, @05:26PM (#751036) Journal
      Sounds like you got nothing to say. I rest my case.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @06:03PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @06:03PM (#751055)

        I rest my case.

        Your case is the objection to corporations being considered the exclusive importer of slave labor and if you'd made it coherently, it would have been conceded. You point about contraband is another argument unless you want to discuss people and narcotics being trafficked over the border and arms being sent back. [wikipedia.org]

        • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday October 19 2018, @07:01PM (1 child)

          by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday October 19 2018, @07:01PM (#751091) Journal

          Your case is the objection to corporations being considered the exclusive importer of slave labor and if you'd made it coherently, it would have been conceded.

          What corporations? Neither the article or you mention a single one. I'm not the only person here with any obligation to make coherent points.

          You point about contraband is another argument unless you want to discuss people and narcotics being trafficked over the border and arms being sent back.

          Given that was what was being discussed in the article (the article mentioned "north of the border"), of course.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @08:14PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @08:14PM (#751131)

            What corporations? Neither the article or you mention a single one.

            Corporate supremacists love the pain they inflict on immigrants and locals

            I'm not the only person here with any obligation to make coherent points.

            Corporate supremacist confirmed.

            Given that was what was being discussed in the article

            This is a discussion about slavery which includes human trafficking.