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Crappy job <> slave. Yeah, anything nice we have or use is thanks to people with crappy jobs... but there are people lining up out the door for those jobs, as
by RockyMcNuts 15y ago
Crappy job <> slave.
Yeah, anything nice we have or use is thanks to people with crappy jobs... but there are people lining up out the door for those jobs, as they offer a better life than subsistence farming or scavenging garbage and living in a favela. And the places where those jobs don't exist are even worse off.
Not to excuse the creation of inhuman living and working conditions. But better to work for appropriate conditions, than broad-brush everyone a slaveowner.
- DanBC 15y agoDebt Bondage is real. People are not lining up out the door to replace people in debt-bondage slavery. (http://www.ilo.org/global/topics/forced-labour/lang--en/index.htm http://www.ilo.org/global/topics/forced-labour/lang--en/inde...)
- RockyMcNuts 15y agofair enough. I don't want to minimize the issue, but there is room for some realistic perspective, somewhere between indifference and equating consumers with slaveowners. The link says there are at least 12.3m forced laborers. If every American had 10 'slaves' that would be 3.1b slaves. This was a pretty eye-opening story about an unfortunate Chinese deliveryman a few months ago http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/nyregion/22victim.html?pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/nyregion/22victim.html?pag...