*Part* of the issue is that the powers that be don't want you to know that slavery is alive and well. And I'm not simply referring to the indebted life the vast majority of us live. Yes, that is HUGE issue but I'll leave the socioeconomical part of this aside.
Fortunes are still being made from sex trafficking and illegal alien workers. Both categories are made up of people working to have little more than a roof over their head and some food. The number of people that disappear EVERY year is staggering. Most of them end up in one or both of these scenarios. All ages, sexes, race, nationalities.
SLAVERY IS AT AN ALL TIME HIGH
Experts have calculated that roughly 13 million people were captured and sold as slaves between the 15th and 19th centuries; today, an estimated 40.3 million people – more than three times the figure during the transatlantic slave trade – are living in some form of modern slavery, according to the latest figures published by the UN’s International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Walk Free Foundation.
Women and girls comprise 71% of all modern slavery victims. Children make up 25% and account for 10 million of all the slaves worldwide. And some countries still have hereditary slavery (born from a slave mother).
To put this in perspective a bit more as your numbers don't really get to the heart of the matter. Doesn't matter how many are enslaved as much as it's wrong for anyone or any single person to be enslaved. I'm 100% with you on the debt slavery most are are in but I would call it wage slavery for the most part, that's a different conversation though as you said.
Now for the fun stuff/dumb shit I think about lol.
First there are also around 7x more people in the world now than there were in the 1800's.
That is simply an estimate of world population from the 1800's to now and using the numbers you present from the UN the % of slaves is likely similar globally.
If we take that 13 million number and extrapolate over 4 years the % gets more in line with the current numbers.
1800's population of 1 billion people roughly and based on 13 million as slaves = 1.3% of the world population. That is taking the total from the 1400's to the 1800's so not exactly perfect.
2021 population of 7.65 billion people roughly and based on 40 million people being enslaved = .5% of the world population.
I don't believe the numbers the UN puts out as those are highly unlikely to be accurate since places like China, Russia and most of Africa aren't reporting anything remotely accurate. Hell, we're probably not reporting accurately on that either and of course we have Mexico and South America etc to throw in so it is likely closer to the same percentage or close enough on either side of the number to be the same as it was and has basically always been.
I believe the 1.3% number is more accurate or at least closer than .5% in case I confused anyone with my rambling.
We fight, have wars etc and the winners end up with people as slaves. Obviously there is and has always been an entire "industry" (loosely used verbage) on selling people of all colors and genders.
They get sold etc and well here we are.
Not exactly a new thing. Slavery is as old as prostitution.
It's only now that we have more information thrown in our faces and a media that needs to get you enraged in order to click the freaking article so they can continue to make money and exist.
So so many other things that people consider “scary” these days that if you go back to the days before the internet existed in it’s current format were the exact same from a % standpoint or per capita…however you want to look at that so really nothing different.
People suck and the ones that want the power the most are the ones that should never actually have it.
There will always be these same problems and while we can do what we can to combat them and we should do our best that doesn’t change the reality of the basics of human nature and people in general.
It follows from the highest points to the lowest points in society and makes no difference what country or people as far as I can tell…there are always going to be X% of trash people that will do things that the majority of people would consider abhorrent.
They do this same shit with Covid as the raw numbers are alarming but when you look at it from an actual mathematical standpoint we are talking about fractional numbers. Doesn’t mean the deaths from covid are acceptable and doesn’t mean that the number of people being enslaved on any level is ok because they aren’t.
If anyone would like to discuss or disagree I would love to talk about this stuff on the open forum and have a real conversation with many people but if you just wanna trol then you can fuck off.
For all I know I may be wrong in the way I look at it and the only way I can learn is by listening to others opinions or reasoning etc. Pretty sure the math is accurate though.
