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What is your slavery footprint ? A new app can tell you !According to this organisation http://slaveryfootprint.org/ we, and our Westener lifestyle, run on forced labor.http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/what-is-your-slavery-footprint/2011/11/01/gIQAOrGNdM_blog.html The problem is that I denied the website to locate me therefore I couldn't process over ... (thank you Oakland)
That site is like the ultimate internet guilt trip. I took the survey, below are the results. Apparently I have 69 slaves working for me but I still have to mow my own yard. I especially like the question at the end: How many times have you paid for sex? The army has made soliciting prostitutes a court-martial offense and even threatened to recall retirees to active duty for prosecution if we use their services while retired. Because I am in receipt of retired pay I am still subject to the UCMJ, which I did not know until human trafficking became a huge deal last year.
I finally took the survey as well and I have 22 slaves (only) working for me, most of them in China (which is a delightful feeling 😉 )As you noted I didn't understand the "paid for sex" either ... (is that a kind of standard ?)
Supposedly. the sex trade is where most (if not all) chattel slaves work these days. The rest that the survey counts are “so-called” wage slaves that don't make income according to western standards for their labor. Kind of a Marxist guilt trip, if you ask me.
Supposedly. the sex trade is where most (if not all) chattel slaves work these days. The rest that the survey counts are "so-called" wage slaves that don't make income according to western standards for their labor. Kind of a Marxist guilt trip, if you ask me.
I fully agree
While I am against actual slavery, I would question the organization's findings and definitions in the matter. The reason is that creating a nifty site to make people guilty about participating in free markets sounds like something out of a communist playbook.
While I am against actual slavery, I would question the organization's findings and definitions in the matter. The reason is that creating a nifty site to make people guilty about participating in free markets sounds like something out of a communist playbook.
I fully agree as well (but communist or not doesn't seem important to me but freedom more)
