You have been down voted, but I think your point is a good one. To rephrase what you said, the actual, on-the-ground difference between chattel slavery (say, a

You have been down voted, but I think your point is a good one. To rephrase what you said, the actual, on-the-ground difference between chattel slavery (say, as practiced in the American South) vs. this kind of open-ended debt bondage, which is apparently being winked at by the state and by society at large, may be small.