Slavery is at all time highs and those in Western democracies who supposedly rail against such things benefit immensely from it. Removing a word from a codebas

Slavery is at all time highs and those in Western democracies who supposedly rail against such things benefit immensely from it. Removing a word from a codebase does absolutely nothing to help this. Most of the people claiming they are against slavery indirectly support it daily. Most coffee on Earth is made by unpaid forced child labour. Most chocolate production relies on the same. I'll put forward that the vast majority of people who claim to care about the usage of the word slave don't think in the slightest about the prevalent modern existence of actual slaves or will do anything to change it at their own expense. Words are cheap, slacktivism is cheap, taking personal responsibility and actively avoiding slave products is not. > Estimates of the number of slaves today range from around 21 million to 46 million[0] > Approximately 2.1 million children in West Africa "still do the dangerous and physically taxing work of harvesting cocoa". The report suggested that it would be an uphill battle to improve the situation. [1] > An undercover probe has discovered child labour at farms linked to coffee giant Nespresso.[2] > Uighurs and other minorities aren’t just being subjected to forced re-education — they’re being used as slave labor after completing their terms of “study.” > The ASPI estimates that up to 80,000 Uighurs have been forced into labor camps this way, some of them directly after finishing their indoctrination at Chinese re-education centers. The report includes three case studies focused on factories producing goods for Nike, Adidas/Fila, and Apple. A total of 83 companies have been identified as benefiting from these practices [5] Hopefully one day those enjoying a chocolate latte at Starbucks wearing designer clothes made by indentured workers while posting about slavery on their iPhone will see the irony. [3][4][5] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labour_in_cocoa_production https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labour_in_cocoa_producti... [2] https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/26/nespresso-exposed-using-child-labour-coffee-farms-12304386/ https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/26/nespresso-exposed-using-child... [3] https://labs.theguardian.com/unicef-child-labour/ https://labs.theguardian.com/unicef-child-labour/ [4] https://www.fastcompany.com/90279693/did-a-slave-make-your-sneakers-the-answer-is-probably https://www.fastcompany.com/90279693/did-a-slave-make-your-s... [5] https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/306909-report-china-sells-minorities-into-forced-labor-to-benefit-apple-foxconn-others https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/306909-report-china-sell...