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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.
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Slavery Was Never Abolished – It Affects Millions, and You May Be Funding It
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @06:51PM (1 child)
You're just dense and playing word games.
Merriam-Webster:
"Definition of abolish
transitive verb
: to end the observance or effect of (something, such as a law) : to completely do away with (something) : ANNUL"
In law, abolishing never means "completely eliminated in practice." It means "completely eliminated in the law."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Friday October 19 2018, @08:32PM
Hilariously I've seen defs like "formally put an end to" such as for example setting up the SEC in 1934 means insider trading in the financial markets in the USA was abolished in 1934. If you think much more than a superficial dent was ever put in, I got a bridge to sell ya...