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'Contemporary forms of slavery' .... isn't this how we are able to be afford our $5 tshirts, dollarstore toothpaste, cheap furniture, every plastic part in your vehicle, pens, papers, staples and just about anything that is manufactured and we buy out of southeast Asia and China?
When you think about it all too hard ... you realize that our entire world is built on some form of slavery ... and if it isn't in your country ... it's in someone else's ... and in that financial model, we are all guilty of participating in it.
And our own fruits and vegetables, because the owners of orchards and fields refuse to pay a living wage, and instead rely on artificially keeping prices low through TFWs
I often visit my family and friends in the Norfolk region and Six Nations in southern Ontario ... in the summer time, whole towns are just overflowing with migrant workers ... Simcoe literally turns into a Mexican / Jamaican town for a while ... and all the entitled locals just find it all completely normal that we hire cheap labourers with no rights to harvest the fields while we give them little to no money for their work.
And the US prison population working for cents an hour.