There's a world of difference between 1) being captured by your neighbors, sold to some tribe of slave traders, then resold to ship-owning slave traders, then

There's a world of difference between 1) being captured by your neighbors, sold to some tribe of slave traders, then resold to ship-owning slave traders, then resold at auction on a different continent, and finally landing on a plantation where the intentional and systematic removal of your human dignity is completed over years in squalid conditions, and 2) not having your company buy you a leather jacket while you're being paid a salary that puts you somewhere in the top 2% of all of humanity. It's this sort of hyperbole that makes the problem less likely to be solved, since it makes it all seem relatively trivial.