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Precisely, it always gets me when many workers in the US are calling their work environment "slavery", doing so ultimately undermines and trivialises the horror
by PradeetPatel 4y ago
Precisely, it always gets me when many workers in the US are calling their work environment "slavery", doing so ultimately undermines and trivialises the horror our ancestors went through.
I, for one, am glad that such barbaric practice has been more or less abolished.
- indigochill 4y ago> I, for one, am glad that such barbaric practice has been more or less abolished. Well, yes and no. Human trafficking is still big business even in the states (worldwide, the State Department estimates 24.9 million trafficked persons at any given time - domestically, there were for example over 1,500 reported cases in California in 2019). It's just underground now.
- CryptoPunk 4y agoIs human trafficking strictly slavery/coercive, or does it lump in all smuggling of sex workers, irrespective of the presence of consent/willingness?
- zdragnar 4y agoSlavery is alive and well in the world today, and is not simply limited to sex trafficking. According to https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/resource/human-trafficking-numbers#:~:text=An%20estimated%2024.9%20million%20victims,place%20in%20many%20different%20industries https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/resource/human-trafficking-.... Only about 20% are sexually exploited, with the majority used for labor.