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[–] Haagel 65 points 2 years ago (5 children)

There's more slavery now than at any time in human history, according to this UN task force.

It makes you wonder, of course, that if our capitalism depends on slave markets... is it really capitalism?

Someone please help me to understand...

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Yes. Capitalism is private ownership over the means of production. Slavery serves capitalism very well, even if it didn't invent slavery.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

One could argue that if the workers themselves are the means of production, slavery is extra capitalist.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Which is why the founders of anarcho-capitalism argued for "voluntary slavery."

[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

I think I just lost some braincells.

[–] Haagel 11 points 2 years ago

let's call it neo-slavery 💫

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If a CEO finds out that he can get slaves to do the work for free instead of spending money on it they have an obligation to the shareholders to do what makes the company the most money.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The only reason corporations aren't doing chattel slavery in the U.S. right now is that they're legally barred from it.

[–] Haagel 6 points 2 years ago

I just heard an NPR story about US Steel Corp using chattel slavery less than a hundred years ago. They worked people to death and buried them in unmarked graves.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 years ago

The private economy is the main source of the rise, while state-enforced labour counts for one in seven cases of modern slavery, the report adds.

I wonder if mandatory military service counts for "state-enforced labor"

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What we have isn’t capitalism, capitalism only works until you add people

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How are there high income people in slavery, that doesn't make sense to me

[–] Haagel 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The UN sponsored report uses a pretty liberal definition of slavery to include things like wage theft (which forces workers to stay at a job until they're fully compensated), sex trafficking, and domestic servitude where the servant's documents are confiscated so that they can't flee.

However, there's still a hell of a lot whips and chains slavery in Africa and South East Asia. Those slaves serve the excavation and manufacturing industries.

[–] Demdaru@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Okay, this may come off as unemphatetic but I love the fact that slavery doesn't give a shit about your sex or wealth. Like, the percentages are almost fully equal, save for actual low income that is almost double what the other percentages are. Other than that, all are equal in the eyes of slavers.

Shit's wild. What's also wild is that these numbers still exists...especially when thinking about Americas or Europe. :|

[–] AnalogyAddict@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

That's what you got from those graphs?