We do ask the general question of "what costs are we willing to bear to reduce the amount and human toll of actual slavery". Actual slavery is illegal, certainl

We do ask the general question of "what costs are we willing to bear to reduce the amount and human toll of actual slavery". Actual slavery is illegal, certainly, but there are still instances of it happening, even today[1,2,3]. We could spend more resources to further reduce the number of cases where this happens, and there are plenty of people saying we should. In theory, a complete enough surveillance state, where the movements of all people and all monetary transactions are tracked and analyzed, might even be able to get the number of such instances all the way down to zero, but that seems a lot less likely to be a good tradeoff. So yes. We do the same for non-wage slavery. We do the same for any bad thing that trades off against a different bad thing. [1] https://www.ajc.com/news/this-has-been-happening-for-a-long-time-modern-day-slavery-uncovered-in-ga/SHBHTDDTTBG3BCPSVCB3GQ66BQ/ https://www.ajc.com/news/this-has-been-happening-for-a-long-... [2] https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/migrant-worker-lured-to-australia-held-captive-in-restaurant-for-16-months-20150717-gieud6.html https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/migrant-worker-lured-to-... [3] https://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/usadom/usadom0501-04.htm#P300_59041 https://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/usadom/usadom0501-04.htm#P3...