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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: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday October 21 2018, @12:12AM
So what are you saying, VLM? Because this post reads like a gussied-up, lipstick-on-a-pig way of saying "Black people were better off as slaves and should be made slaves again." Only you'd pronounce "black people" with two Gs in it. Who the fuck do you think you're fooling?
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