A huge amount of western industrialized life is built upon wage slavery, the constant threat of being made homeless at gunpoint if one does not work long hours at a completely shitty job.
It takes a LOT of garbage haulers, floor sweepers, line cooks, dishwashers, and the like to keep our society humming along.
It's ostensibly voluntary, so not the same thing as in TFA, but close.
There is also a huge amount of slave labor used in the US's world-leading prison population. Slavery was never really abolished in the US, just limited to prisoners. Correspondingly, the number of black people in prison skyrocketed.
So, so much suffering. The worst part is that we all support this global system of inequality with every purchase and every vote. It is the inescapable consequence of "more for me."
It takes a LOT of garbage haulers, floor sweepers, line cooks, dishwashers, and the like to keep our society humming along.
It's ostensibly voluntary, so not the same thing as in TFA, but close.
There is also a huge amount of slave labor used in the US's world-leading prison population. Slavery was never really abolished in the US, just limited to prisoners. Correspondingly, the number of black people in prison skyrocketed.