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The Benefits Of Slavery

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There are tens of millions of slaves in the world today and they are still stuck in the situation of various forms of slavery. What make this happen are that the huge profits of slavery for slaveholders, the vulnerability of people and corruption of the government. Because the modern slavery is a hidden crime, it is hard to know the statistics of the slaves. The researchers estimate that the numbers of slaves in the world is 45.8 million (The Global Slavery Index, 2016) and this number will be continually increasing. Today’s slavery is about people who are forced to work for 24 hours without pay and they are unable to walk away under the threat of violence. They are trapped in the forced labour slavery, sex trafficking, forced marriage slavery, debt-bondage and child labour or child soldiers. Slavery is everywhere and it is our responsibility to bring it to an end.

From my perspective, the main reason to enslave them is to make a profit. And slavery today is very profitable and slaves are disposable. Unlike the historical enslavement that a slave-owner needed to spend a large amount of money to buy a slave who became legally owned by him, the relationship between slaveholders and slaves has changed. There is a dramatic decline in the price of human beings, and buying a slave is like buying a mobile phone or a bike. Slaves are so cheap now and slaveholders do not cost a lot of money on a slave, which significantly increases the profit made from enslavement, decreases the

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