Did slavery really end?

Question

Or were was the bottom rung of it just removed? While a person can no longer legally be owned by someone, how do you explain someone that owes huge medical bills from a malignant cancer? Just to stay alive, they had to have a horrendously expencive medical procedure. Now they spend the rest of their lives barely scraping by so that they can pay for the privilege of being alive, trying not to lose the little they have aquired, while constantly battling lawsuits, bill collecters and being denied bankruptcy. Is that life any different than slavery?

Answer 1

In parts of Africa and Asia real slavery still exists - try going to Timbuktu (Mali) for instance and you'll find the going rate for a young adult slave to be about $30,000.

If you are asking whether the capitalist system makes most people wage slaves - their only freedom being to choose between starvation and exploitation - then the answer is yes. Most Britains have been conned into thinking "Rule Britannia ... Britains never, never, never shall be slaves" and the Wobblies disappeared a long time ago in the USA, so while most people will talk about individual freedom, they're doing so from a false perspective and will either freak out or get very violent if you try to live an alternative life style or advocate major social change.

Answer 2

Slavery in its most blatant form exists yet today. Primarily it occurs in Africa and Asia. There are rumors of forms of slavery in other countries including all of the countries of Europe and the Americas but there is little solid evidence. Other quasi-forms of slavery such as those who take money from those in far off countries who want to get to the United States and then put them in slave work environments.

The United Nations is well aware of slavery around the world but does little to publicize it let alone stop it.

An argument could be made that they are slaves to the degree that the general government of their country intrudes on their rights. However, individual rights must be recognized in their country before a country could intrude on them. If the country has assumed all (or nearly all) sovereignty, the individual has few rights on which the government could intrude.

The United States (as well as some other Western democracies) have a cultural history (more than 3,000 years) of evolving individual rights and therefore it is easy to find fault with the government actions. While recourse is often slow, corrections can be achieved through the courts and legislation. However, in countries where such cultural history doesn’t exist it is more difficult to define such rights and the intrusive actions of governments. Chad and the Sudan are such examples.

These freedoms based in the West have expanded as free markets have expanded with the proof found in the increasing average standard of living and the ability of individuals to control the direction of their life..

Answer 3

There still is an underground slavery thing going on. We just don't hear about it so much. Women are kidnapped in Asian countries or told lies to emigrate and end up being prostituted out until they pay their sponsor back for the travel costs. In Canada we don't have the medical burdens like you guys in the states do. My husband's health has been a challenge for us and he's going for surgery and then who knows what after but at least we can make ends meet in the meantime. He also has to be on this injection drug that replaced the pituitary function 5 years ago and that's worth at least $2000 that's covered by health insurance. He works for a good company that has good benefits but we know others aren't so fortunate.

Answer 4

Slavery didn t end with the Emancipation Proclamation. It basically ended slavery in ten states...all of which had seceded from the union. different states nonetheless had their slaves. The thirteenth modification to the form ended slavery contained in usa.

Answer 5

Well if you want, we could just stop all human progress and go back to living in the trees. Then when you get cancer, you'll just die. Too bad, no help for you because it's survival of the fittest. Just be thankful you even have access to medical attention. Try living in China where if you get cancer, you might as well jump off a cliff because if you're not a "somebody" you'll be left to die in the gutter.

Answer 6

That's because in America, there are no human rights. The US government will not sign up to it because they like exploiting people too much.

The first human right is the right to life, in America, you do not have the right to live. The American government is only concerned with getting every cent possible out of every person. Most civilised nations don't treat its people in this way, for example in Britain health care is free, and the government can write off 75% of you're debts if you're really struggling.

Answer 7

And they are denied bankruptcy by who?
That part sounds like bullshit.
Go bankrupt.
Sure it will be hard to get a low credit rate on a new car or house, but at least you will be able to keep your salary.
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Answer 8

its been going on since people have been here and it still is.
its just hidden more than in the past.also there are people that
are slaves to their own hungers and wants and there`s more
of that going on now than past. self gratification is the slave
master to many people !

Answer 9

It might feel like slavery BUT it was a personel choice. Hope it's not you in this situation.!

Answer 10

It's called part time slavery.