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Re:Microsoft CEO defends US military contract that employees... by adventured on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @12:07AM (#19252114)
> And today, it's nearly universally accepted as wrong and almost completely eradicated.

It's nowhere close to eradicated. The broadest measure of slavery today includes roughly 50 million people. A more narrow figure, that would be similar to the slavery you're referring to, is closer to 10-20 million people.

There are an estimated 7.5 million people in forced labor slavery in fields like construction and mining; 1.7 million in agriculture labor slavery; there are several million women held in sexual slavery, in the sex trafficking trade, across the world.

https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/resource/human-trafficking-...

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Re:Microsoft CEO defends US military contract that employees... by dnautics on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @02:57AM (#19252713)
As a proportion of the world population the enslaved is still on a downtrend. How many years (which is what I mean by 'almost') do you suppose it will take us to get from 1% or so to 0.01%?
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