richardhutnik said:
Mr Khan said:
You're thinking too conventionally here. Secure the compound? a few bars on the windows, locks on the doors. When dealing with trafficked persons, they often don't want to escape, at least not in the conventional way. If you've been shuttled out of Moldova to, say, Dubai, don't speak a word of Arabic, how can you escape? Where can you go? If the police find you, they're just gonna deport you back to Moldova. The traffickers can also prey on this mentality, to amplify it. Psychological torment costs nothing on the part of the tormentor
You're thinking of, like, a sort of legitimized slavery, one where slaves are self-actualized and aware that there are better opportunities than slavery, and are not being psychologically, physically, and sexually abused. The face of modern slavery is low-tech, high high profit, and very ugly
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I was think of the Indentured Servant model seen in Illium of Mass Effect 2, where everything was above board and promoted as a viable model for employing people. Or, even the model in the American south, where it was institutionalized. It was not below board, but out in the open.
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Are you talking about slavery as a viable economic option for whom? Traffickers, pimps, and gangsters are making mad money off of it. As an act of exploitation, slavery is incredibly valuable, to the exploiters
