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Master-Ad-6411 t1_iybe8f3 wrote

How is modern slavery defined? You got a gun pointed at your head and you cannot leave and get no pay, or you have to work to pay for the living cost but there are no other jobs in the region other than being a miner and carry ore, or assemble electronics in factory.

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tommles t1_iybjjwn wrote

Modern slavery and forced labor. Some of the examples in the report are

  • Uyghur and Kazakh people in China.
  • Children in Democratic Republic of the Congo being paid less than $2/day to work in hazardous mines without proper protective equipment.
  • Workers in Ecuador’s Amazon region being subjected to substandard labor conditions and being paid in drugs and alcohol.

It's not chattel slavery, but all of them involve taking vulnerable people and exploiting them .

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youmu123 t1_iybvz7y wrote

The problem with much of "modern slavery" is often its voluntariness. The voluntariness makes its elimination hard.

"Modern slavery" is not "OG slavery". You can't solve it by "freeing the slaves". They go right back.

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Wonderful-Design7770 t1_iydmup6 wrote

“There will always be a slave class. Throughout history, there has been, and in the future, there always will be. How are we bad for utilizing something already established before our time?”- a human trafficker

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