Cost of a slave at an all time low...
 

If you have $90 then you could own your slave.

Depending on the kind of person you are that sentence could be at once shocking, saddening or darkly comical. However you might feel though, it?s the plain truth, says Kevin Bales.

The modern-day slavery expert explained to CNN that the current $90 rate for a human slave is actually at an historic low. Two hundred years ago, a slave cost about $40,000 in today?s money. The reason for this price slide: a massive boom in the world?s population, especially in developing countries, has increased the supply of ?slaveable? people.

And this has basically turned a human being into a cheap commodity ? Bales says like a Styrofoam cup that?s cheaply replaceable if damaged, ?If they get sick, what?s the point of paying for medicine ? it?s cheaper to let them die and acquire a new one than it is to help the ones you?ve got.

At this very moment, between 12 million and 30 million slaves are working around the world. That?s according to low and high estimates from sociologists and the International Labor Organization.

Despite the spread, any way you cut that number, it?s still a figure that?s big beyond belief. And slaves are everywhere says the United Nations. Breaking down the numbers, more than half of all forced labor sadly occurs right here in Asia. The regions of Latin America and the Middle East both have about 10% of the world?s forced labor. Sub-Saharan Africa has just more than 5%.

And which industries are these slaves in? Well the ones you might expect of course ?- prostitution and sweatshop manufacturing. But they also occur in industries you might not associate with slavery ? coffee and tea trades, food processing and even health care. That takeaway you might be tucking into could also use forced labor.

And one question we might want to consider as we go about our daily lives: Have the hands of a slave touched what I?m touching now? If the numbers above are to be believed, then it?s not far-fetched to think the answer just might be yes.

http://business.blogs.cnn.com/2011/0...-historic-low/



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i'll take 2. I need someone to do my dishes and wipe my ass. I would like to keep those 2 jobs totally separate.

Where can I get some? I call bs.

If people could get slaves everyone would have one, look at what lazy pigs people are. At 90$ every welfare pig could have a slave, smart people could whore them out.

It's only if you have the right connections can you possibly get such a good deal on slaves, and if you want to cite people enslaved in their own countries: sorry idiots, that's called a job. :2 cents:

You just keep fiddling with the definition of slave and it will keep getting cheaper.

What kind of person am I if I just want to know where I can pick a sixpick of them up at?

You can't. It's bullshit. There may be places like Haiti where desperately poor people will rent out their relatives for what seems like a paltry sum, and there may be surprisingly diverse duties can be performed by your hired help, but this is in no way the same as slavery.

The people pushing these statistics are trustfund bleeding hearts and armchair revolutionaries with agendas and want us to believe that people who are so poor that they cant survive if they don't have to do jobs they don't want are in fact, slaves.

When the fact is that all over the world the people who go to work everyday don't do it because they love the work, they do it because they need the money.

There is nowhere where you can buy a live-in maid for any amount as mentioned in the OP's article. You might be able to strike that bargain with some scammer, sure,

1) but will you have a title deed for that person? no
2) if that person decides to leave can you call the police and have your property returned to you? no
3) can you do whatever you want to that person with no legal problems or reprisals? well, maybe if you bribe the right people you might be able to, but that's not slavery it's just old fashioned corruption.

If you work for a company you are a slave too

Its your time for money at the end of the day, sounds so similar to prostitution!

everyone is a slave, the only thing that differs is the price.

Easy to buy either labor or sex slaves on this side of the world. I wouldn't buy one, but getting one is not as difficult as you'd think, especially if you get them young from their parents. You'd be surprised what a dirt poor family living in Laos will give up to make sure the rest of the family has food for a week.

But fuck, Charlie Sheen has tiger blood. Who cares about people living as slaves? Out of sight, out of mind, give me a new iPad and keep me in la-la land.

No, we're all just part of a fucked up system.

You don't have someone beating or raping you when you get out of line, and you're probably not locked in a room or a basement every night so you can't escape. Your owner is not abusing you either physically or mentally. Your children are also not born into slavery where they inherit your debt and in turn are beat and raped as you were.

modern slaves think they have fridom

man, that's too long to read

are you selling or are you buying?

if you are selling, I would take a female slave with long legs and DD cup size - paying by epassporte

Those saying, "ohhh, we're all slaves" have probably never left the Western world, or if they have, probably never left the tourist areas in the foreign countries they visited.

Here's an example of a "good life" for a "slave". Go to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and you'll see loads of brand new townhouse complexes all over the place. Almost every townhouse literally has a cell in the basement. Small room about large enough to lay down in with a toilet, tile floor, and the door has jail-cell bars.

If you're a wealthy doctor, businessman, or whatever, you simply goto your local "Molly Maid" agency, and order a maid from the Philippines. Sign for a VISA, pay some money, and a couple months later this cute, petite 22yo thing shows up. You pay her $150/month, and for all intents and purposes, she is now YOURS 24x7x365.

At night, after she's put the kids to bed, you lock her in her cell, and let her out the next morning to get the kids off to school. You can beat and rape her all you want, make her eat off the floor, and nobody will say anything, because after all, she's just a filthy Filipino. The maid will never complain, because the cops won't listen, and if the owner ever found out, he makes one call to immigration, and she gets deported back to the shithole she came from. Either that, or the owner just kills her.

And this is in Malaysia, a relatively wealthy country. And in the higher-end neighborhoods of Kuala Lumpur. This is the "good life" for a modern day slave, so I could just imagine what happens in places like Zimbabwe. "Need some child soldiers? Well, got a few 14 year olds here, and I'll give you a deal. 3 for $200!"

Can't wait for the brilliant replies like, "well, it's not my fault they were born in the Philippines or Zimbabwe!"

Looks that I'm cheaper :Oh crap ...

I'll take 7.Just so i've got one more than Jew Cat.

Here in Philippines a full time "slave" (maid) is 6-10k PHP a month. That's $90-200. Full time is 24/7 (most get 1 or 2 offdays a month). Every condo has a "slave" room built in. It's standard here to have one. She cooks, cleans, does the laundry, shopping, takes care of errands, dishes, etc.

I am sure that if you could get them in the US for that price everyone would get one as well.

Besides a maid I also have a full time driver, for the same price. Available 24/7.

In Thailand rice patty farmers prefer to have daughters because they then just ship them off to work as bar girls eventually.

12 million slaves? I don't buy it..

holy cow I'm moving to Philippines!

My sugar babe from EstablishedMen.com wants $2K a month!

their own people are selling each other into slavery for a few bucks. what can you do? they're morons!

Reporter is really reaching for the Peabody Award but may get an Opera episode

if you buy a dozen , are they cheaper ? ;)

For the average person around here you get to be a slave and owe money for it.

physically no
mentally yes

The joys of the 3rd world. While they have slaves on the cheap it is STILL the 3rd world and you really need to ask if even slaves make it worth living there. Get me some slaves in the first world for a good deal and we can talk!

Buy 10 get one free!

Bakers dozen only.

Shocking or is it..

$40,000 was for a "legal" slave. The $90 comes with either the fact that you have to live in a 3rd world shithole, or that you will be arrested and jailed.

You're so wrong it isn't even funny. Here in Argentina there are organizations bringing people from Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru and even poor people from distant provinces and they're bound to slavery. Proper, real slavery in all the sense of the word, hidden in sweat shops, abused and even killed at will.

There's not a single week with police not cracking on one of those slavery dungeons, and the people in charge are just middlemen that go to jail... and someone else sets another slavery operation, sometimes a couple blocks away from the original one. And we're talking about a country where slavery is severely condemned, let alone countries where police and government don't care at all

Doesn't surprise me it will only be getting cheaper.

$90 is not a small amount at all. This amount of money can sure change a person's day.

And what is crazy about that is, they will ship their kids off and then hire girls (some as young as 14) from Laos to come help them pick rice, because Lao workers will work much cheaper than the Thais will. Some of these people will pack Lao girls in during rice season, and the Lao girls all try to fuck the man of the house in an attempt to be allowed to stay. I know one rice farmer who bangs 2 - 3 teenage Lao girls at a time during rice season. They are not shy like the Thais are and will do whatever.

OK look, where I live you can drive to Haiti in about an hour.

I hear this whining all the time. But what you and others are describing is not slavery, it's one or a mix of any of the following:

kidnapping
false imprisonment
prostitution
corruption
organized crime
doing unsavory jobs for very little money

While many of these things are horrible and illegal and others are unfortunate and lamentable, none of them are slavery.