• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    17 days ago

    Agreed but there are more slaves alive today than there ever was in human history … how natural is that?

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      17 days ago

      About as natural as there being more human beings alive today than there ever was in human history, and the definition of slave being much broader to draw attention to the injustice that we could very easily stop if we put the resources to it.

      Proportionally, less than 1% of people are slaves under this expanded, non-chattel slavery definition, which is considerably smaller than just about every major pre-modern polity’s proportion of actual chattel slaves. And most of those under those regimes of slavery are not exactly the same ones doing genetic engineering on crops.