Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by zmgsabst 1405 days ago
In what way do you believe they are substantially different?
1 comments

In places where colonial chattel slavery was practiced, like Brazil, mortality rates were massive, living conditions were unimaginable, and people were bought and sold.

The average African slave in Brazil lived to be 23 years old.

The forced labor of interned Uyghurs, while reprehensible, is just not the same. Moreover, most shoes are not made with forced labor AFAIK.