Topic: Modern-day slavery (Read 924 times)

At first the word, modern day slavery to me has to many things to ascribe it to, when you mention modern day slavery too many things runs into my mind, it is obvious that some of this countries that suffers modern day slavery are not independent, even though it has been pronounce by there colonial maters, when corruptible practices is common among leaders, her people suufer, when leaders can't plan for one or two years ahead her people suffer, when citizen who comes out to vote during election, but can't stand to defend it, the people still suffer,  all this and too many to be mention are factors causing modern day slavery of today.

Slavery? Throughout the modern world, governments have denounced slavery. But...

In much of the Muslim world hidden slavery abounds. Check out the country Western Sahara. It's full of hidden slavery... so much so that many of the slaves are family-line slaves, and don't even understand what freedom is.

This is real slavery. The hidden minor slavery in the free world is nothing like this. Google 'Western Sahara slavery'. It's way worse than most of the Google sites let us know.

And what are each one of us supposed to do to separate our personal life from the collective life of the nation or the political context which is going on in our respective countries? They are called national crisis or turmoil because it affects us all, regardless of our position within the social order of the country: the poor get poorer, the middle class loses priviledges and the rich can continue to get richer. It is difficult to escape when all around you is falling apart, I have experienced it myself, because I live in Venezuela.

Also, when democracy seems to be failing it is mostly because it is not being implemented as it is used to be. Democracy is indeed not perfect, but it is one of the better systems for people to keep bad people at bay and allow good politicians to govern, but there must be a way to hold corrupt ones and incompetent ones accountable.

We are all aware that the current work we have is very enslaving, it is not paid as it should be, except in countries like Switzerland, meanwhile in countries that can have the person 24 hours a day it is possible to work better, but as 12 hours are needed to rest at least and do some life, 12 hours is the maximum for me as a person who can work and have a good result in any activity.

In view of all these things, controversies can be generated, for someone to be successful and not depend on the system, they have to look for investments, generally risky ones, to aspire to better.

Abuse of partisan interests can be a major cause of economic inequality in the country, creating an environment of political instability in the country for a long period of time. Party influence prevails from various sectors of the government to the field level which is against the normal life of the people of the country. Political instability is at its peak in various countries of the world and mainly Russia's violence Ukraine war and Gaza war with Israel are part of an apolitical situation all over the world.

In underdeveloped countries where there is a lack of employment, the ruling government of those countries creates a decent environment with the developed countries to maintain its power, which makes the public life of the people of that country a curse. Abuse of power and selfishness of the party government has destroyed the economic backbone of the country.

If you observe, in a democratic state the majority enjoy some opportunity seeking mass which may be one third rich bureaucratic clique. If you observe further, you will see that the government bureaucrats use the low income people as weapons in various riots for some money to achieve their interests. In this way, the ruling government creates an environment of political instability for the youth of a country to achieve its interests, which leads the country towards destruction. Therefore I think that thinking about the overall development of the people of the country the intelligent, highly educated masses of the people should unite with one mind and raise loud slogans to bring down the dictatorial government and immediately make just appointments for the welfare of the country.

It’s truly disheartening and very unfortunate that what seem to be democracy has turn out to be government to the rich,by the rich and for the rich. No proper ideas and philosophy to get the current hardship ravaging the land. The youth have to set this straight by doing everything possible to save it if not the modern day slavery will continue.

I would say slavery, in any way you put it, is more of a compulsion than a choice because when someone works for another person, there is always a reason behind it; the most probable explanation is they don't have another option. If you have a family to take care of and a house to run, you wouldn't think twice about what you are going to do as long as you are getting some money because, for you, the first thing that comes to your mind is taking care of the ones attached to you. After all, it's your responsibility.

No one with a right mindset would choose to work under someone else if they have the choice to do something on their own instead of relying on someone else and following their orders, but, we don't always have the resources and time to achieve what we want in life, so out of compulsion, we have to embrace what life throws our way.

It's difficult to accept, but it is a harsh reality of life that we have to live with.

Yes, we must think positively in living our life journey, and see modern slavery as just a term for work that continues non-stop and is tiring, but it depends on each of us to interpret it, because opinions always differ from each other, the important thing is to appreciate the work we have, because in some countries work is very difficult to get.

You are right. It has to do with our personal decisions. I believe someone who is tired of living a slavery life won't be forced to strive hard. Of course, getting jobs can be very difficult especially in countries that has no business with economical development, but I guess one can achieve almost anything when the hunger to succeed is there. And if we find ways to improve ourselves thereby working to live a good life, then I guess we will indirectly reduce the work load for those in government that has failed to do their part.

If others are still into this, then we must be able and ready to show that we are no longer interesting on modern day slavery, this is what we should be determined for as a country and as individual, we may not have to wait till others get this same narrative right, we have to work by what we are hoping and wanted to see happened to us in life, because we are going to be held responsible for how we live our personal live.

Honestly, as someone who has escaped the 9-5 job, I always believed that people are not willing to make less money, and not adventurous enough. This is why I believe that we are all looking at how to see this growing to be a based on simple stuff, that is not going to be all that ok, not really feeling fine at all, doesn't make that much sense. Sure you may have a great job at some office, and I bet you that if you are offered a job as cashier in some Walmart type of store, you would reject that just because it would be "harder" work and pays less.

Well, how do you know if you never tried it, maybe that's easier, maybe that makes more sense to you, maybe you would enjoy it a lot more. I have done this, I have given up everything, and started from the bottom many times before. If I lose everything now, I would be very upset and would be crying over losing my job because I love my job, but I will surely find another thing that makes me happy eventually, won't give up, won't give myself to 9-5 at all.

I am not African so I can't talk about that continent, but I am pretty sure that not every nation in a whole continent could be all the same, there must be some nations different from others, isn't it? Maybe I am wrong but it feels like that natural possibility, it's a whole continent, from Egypt to Morrocco to all the way down to south Africa, how could every nation there be all equals, feels like they would be different.

I can talk about Europe, and the weird thing is, slavery did existed in Europe a bit, but mostly it didn't really exist within, there were periods, like "slave" comes from literally slavic people for example, or roman empire did brought in slaves, but afterwards, they just used slaves where they are, so if they go to Africa, they use Africans to mine minerals, not bring them to England or something. That is why it's a different situation. In the end, we do not have modern-slavery, we have freedom, at least where I have, I have freedom.

In our country, it is the major source of headaches for our people. The economy cannot move because there's too much corruption and this weakened the moral fiber of our country, Our people have a bad perception on our government officials there's a lot of hearing about corruption but still corruption continues.
This is because our people are easily deceived by officials when they are campaigning for office and as long as people consider popularity over good governance we will remain a struggling third world country.

Unfortunately, too many cooperate institutions use psychological control on their staff. To make them stay relevant and continue the building of the company. I wouldn't tag it slavery, because it's similar to a contract and the workers are selling their expertise to the company. Hence, people are advised to work in firms that'll help improved their experience and skill in a particular business.

If you ask me, ill say its a global problem no continent is exempted. We are only opportuned to notice that it happens a lot in Africa and other part of Asia. Countries with world power are guilty of it too and i wont be surprised that they shut their media to refrain from spreading information like this to not ruin the influence they have on other countries looking up to them.

On a norms its should be the individual states that takes whatever is left after allocating their budget to the federal government and not the other way round. But these days you see the federal government rationing the budget for the individual state development so that there will be enough left for them to share at the federal level. I don't want to go in deeper though in reality, the sovereign leaders should not be trusted.

The thing is most of this things are very common in Africa some Asian and Arabic countries, you see them saying things the way it's supposed to be openly but practically doing a different thing, democracy has never existed in Africa, what we have here are recircled political class, in one of the African countries I know which I won't mention, what happens their is divide and rule,the political class don't care about the personality of the incoming president or governor, it doesn't matter to them, what matters to them is what they stand to gain.
The video you just mentioined that you have seen has proven to you that what they call democracy is good as fallacy, there is nothing of such that exist, what we see today is autocracy, the system is very porous that individuals that are supposed to talk get compromised with bribe and if you refused to accept it you die or remain silent forever to prevent you from dieing, it is too bad that things has gone from bad to worst.

As far as I know, democracy is just in lips, if there was such a thing, there are countries that are very rich in terms of natural resources, infact some state are very rich in terms of natural resources but the statutory allocation given to them looks like when you are gifting someone money, in democratic system where federal system of government is been practiced, this things don't happen but it is unfortunate that democracy has been humiliated to the extent that it's existence is just a mere talk to deceive the outside world from knowing the exact happening within the political class.

Exactly. The investors would like to be in a country that has a stable political status. They don't want to meddle into that affair because all they want is to be happily providing investments, jobs and services to any country that they are welcome to do business. This is the reason why many countries are easing with their rules as per foreign investors so that many of them would choose them and going to come in once they see the incentives that they're offering especially with taxes.

The world system is built in such a way that it is extremely difficult to escape the 9-5 job. We are forced to work but the truth is if you don’t work, you can’t take care of your basic needs. In many companies, workers do not get to have a good work life balance because of the stress and demanding nature of their work. This to me is not so far from modern slavery. The only way out is to take your chances on starting your own business or selling a service.

We are just slaves in our own country, there are many gold mines, the mines are everywhere, but all we get is dirt from factory waste. And let alone being able to live prosperously, it is quite difficult to get a decent job. Added to that, with prices that continue to soar, it is difficult for us to meet our living needs with mediocre wages.

And OP is right that the global political instability that is occurring is one of the roots of the problem. And why is this political instability one of the roots of the problem, because politics can give birth to things that can benefit and harm the people's economy. Political instability can give birth to policies that often change, and this will result in doubt for investors when they want to invest in the country. In the long term, this political instability will lead to a decrease in jobs and people's income. People will lose economic opportunities that they should be able to get.