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tommles t1_iybjjwn wrote

Reply to comment by Master-Ad-6411 in Modern Slavery Is a Global Problem in All Renewable Energy Supply Chains: New Report by chrisdh79

Modern slavery and forced labor. Some of the examples in the report are

  • Uyghur and Kazakh people in China.
  • Children in Democratic Republic of the Congo being paid less than $2/day to work in hazardous mines without proper protective equipment.
  • Workers in Ecuador’s Amazon region being subjected to substandard labor conditions and being paid in drugs and alcohol.

It's not chattel slavery, but all of them involve taking vulnerable people and exploiting them .

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youmu123 t1_iybvz7y wrote

The problem with much of "modern slavery" is often its voluntariness. The voluntariness makes its elimination hard.

"Modern slavery" is not "OG slavery". You can't solve it by "freeing the slaves". They go right back.

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