• blahsay@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    It’s good they’re trying vaguely at least 🤷.

    I don’t think this is capitalism exactly. The Chinese and Russians certainly do their own forms of slavery (fishing boats, gulags etc).

    There’s more slaves in the world now than at any prior time. Lack of education (kids not in school too), poverty and wild birth rates are probably the biggest factors here, particularly in Africa.

    The west can exert a lot of pressure here for good:

    • Subsidized education requirements for export countries (or import levies)
    • Break up chocolate monopolies
    • Living minimum wages
    • Independent monitoring
    • Practical health programs
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      11 months ago

      The US engages in domestic slavery too.

      The 13th amendment has a very convenient loophole:

      Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

      It is one of the many reasons, perhaps the largest reason why African Americans are incarcerated at 6 times the rate of White Americans, on a national average.

      Yet people still don’t believe systemic racism exists.

    • Muyal_Hix@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      jesus christ, some of you seem to be unaware that current Russia is very capitalistic Also, as someone from a third world country, the west is not interested in any of that