There are more people enslaved today than at any time in human history. Including during the transatlantic slave trade days.

Why dont we hear more about this?

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/feb/25/modern-slavery-trafficking-persons-one-in-200

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deadgerbil · 22-25

People don't want to grapple with it. Look at all those sweat shops that so many companies here use to produce cheap goods to satiate customers.

Ozymandiaz

@deadgerbil Yeah man, it is undeniable that The West and everyone within benefits enormously from modern slavery. It would be impossible to take the moral high ground if the truth was acknowledged

deadgerbil · 22-25

@Ozymandiaz it's all a symptom of greed. It's often said how kids are working in mines to produce batteries for EVs. The people in these companies like Musk would rather casually fling 40 billion dollars to wreck Twitter than to invest that into creating an a safe and fair work environment

Ozymandiaz

@deadgerbil Even more than that I suspect that people living in the western world would not tolerate having to shoulder the price increase for everything they purchase if everyone involved was paid a fair wage.

We all have benefited from it. Some of us more than others.