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Re:Microsoft CEO defends US military contract that employees... by dnautics on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @02:48AM (#19252678)
Are you normalizing to the total human population?

So currently 30 million slaves out of a 7 billion population is under a half a percent, compared to 4 million slaves in the us out of a US population of 30 million is almost 7 percent.

I'd say that's an improvement

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Re:Microsoft CEO defends US military contract that employees... by creato on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @03:17AM (#19252782)
It seems that ~60 million people are affected by war [1], "only" ~2x as many. So I think that the original point I was making stands: neither slavery nor war are things that humans "grew out of". They both need significant, active effort by people to avoid/contain/resist.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/jun/18/5...

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