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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: 3, Insightful) by Thexalon on Saturday October 20 2018, @03:52PM
Some massage parlors are legit. Some are thinly veiled prostitution fronts. Some of both of those are slavery operations, and if you're a customer you may not recognize them as such because you aren't supposed to pick up on it.
The reason many slaves are forced into prostitution is that it's a highly lucrative business and requires basically no capital expenses other than the people being prostituted. And it's worth noting that enslaved prostitutes are an issue even in places where prostitution is completely legal, such as the Netherlands.
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