Pretty much everyone recognizes the exploitation, immorality and injustice in the brick kilns in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh [1]. This is called debt bondage

Pretty much everyone recognizes the exploitation, immorality and injustice in the brick kilns in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh [1]. This is called debt bondage. This is a harsher form of indentured servitude [2]. Interestingly, such practices were made explicitly illegal (along with slavery) with the Thirteenth Amendment. Yet many of the same people can't reognize that the systems we live under aren't that different. As long as someone has a smartphone and a PS5, they seem to become oblivious to their chains. Every aspect of your life is designed to extract wealth from you, primarily through debt. Student loan debt, medical debt, end-of-life care, housing debt. Many of these things used to be free or very cheap. The US health care system is just wealth extraction and rent-seeking. [1]: https://www.antislavery.org/what-we-do/past-projects/india-debt-bondage/ https://www.antislavery.org/what-we-do/past-projects/india-d...