Slavery
Interesting fact: India currently has the most slaves per capita, estimated at 50 million!
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SW-User
@SW-User lol yeah i mean from which source i guess.. anyways i did a look through your fact and yeah it collaborates - bonded labor, sexual exploitation, domestic service - all of these are pretty much prevalent.
I am an Indian myself and have been through 2 of those 3 - so I can see now how that could relate to as "modern slavery"
I am an Indian myself and have been through 2 of those 3 - so I can see now how that could relate to as "modern slavery"
SW-User
@SW-User well the thing that came up for me on the web was modern slavery and i guess that means in some ways disguised slavery?
bonded labor for example, laborers working for free to pay off debts or facilities given to them by wealthy people who loan and in many ways own them. Or take domestic service - every house has a domestic servant who is most often a young teen about the age of 11-19. and then there's commercial sexual exploitation which comes in form of women having to offer themselves to sustain families because they can't afford rent or food or owe a large debt.
like i was a slave and in someways i am still a slave but compared to traditional slavery i am not so much of a slave because i do earn some money for my well being. but i am still a slave because i am trapped and can't really come out of what i am and in many ways i am owned because i owe a lot of debt - i would be in jail if i tried to come out of it so i am contracted for life to my debtors. It isn't something I signed up for - or my own doing. For the record I don't even have a say or control or knowledge of how much I owe or am contracted for.
bonded labor for example, laborers working for free to pay off debts or facilities given to them by wealthy people who loan and in many ways own them. Or take domestic service - every house has a domestic servant who is most often a young teen about the age of 11-19. and then there's commercial sexual exploitation which comes in form of women having to offer themselves to sustain families because they can't afford rent or food or owe a large debt.
like i was a slave and in someways i am still a slave but compared to traditional slavery i am not so much of a slave because i do earn some money for my well being. but i am still a slave because i am trapped and can't really come out of what i am and in many ways i am owned because i owe a lot of debt - i would be in jail if i tried to come out of it so i am contracted for life to my debtors. It isn't something I signed up for - or my own doing. For the record I don't even have a say or control or knowledge of how much I owe or am contracted for.
SW-User
@SW-User no not all - its more of those who are financially weak - see banks and financial offices don't really lend to people with nothing to offer as collateral or income to back up the needs
this means the ones that these weaker people turn to are zamindars, thakurs and rich men in general - people who have no intention of getting paid back but rather keep an exorbitant interest rate that eventually pushes these folks further into poverty and indebtedness.
and it doesn't help when these weaker people are not educated enough to know what they have signed up for. its one of the reasons the government has been pushing for more financial inclusion and microfinancing by having everyone open a bank account - reduce cash in the system and have more accountability over financial transactions.
this means the ones that these weaker people turn to are zamindars, thakurs and rich men in general - people who have no intention of getting paid back but rather keep an exorbitant interest rate that eventually pushes these folks further into poverty and indebtedness.
and it doesn't help when these weaker people are not educated enough to know what they have signed up for. its one of the reasons the government has been pushing for more financial inclusion and microfinancing by having everyone open a bank account - reduce cash in the system and have more accountability over financial transactions.
SW-User
@SW-User hmm.. to be honest i am not really that smart and i don't really have a say in economics or society but i guess i can make a little sense out of this and yes i kinda agree.
i mean one of these days the gap between the rich and poor is going to hurt us all - its going to be history all over with the society being divided as the "haves" and the "have-nots" - fighting over the basic needs of food, clean habitable environments and stuff and its going to be bad - really bad.
i mean one of these days the gap between the rich and poor is going to hurt us all - its going to be history all over with the society being divided as the "haves" and the "have-nots" - fighting over the basic needs of food, clean habitable environments and stuff and its going to be bad - really bad.