Originally Posted by
Forogil
That is really bad for the actual victims - and we should not trivialize it by saying that someone with a normal job is a "wage slave".
However, it is small problems, since compared to the population it seems to be that the slaves are about 0.01% of the population.
Compare that to Rome where slaves were perhaps 20% and more than 10% of the population in the Roman empire (as I understand it the slave percentage was even higher in the south of the US).
Now, you might say that it 10,000-13,000 compared to the UK population is 0.02% not 0.01% - and you would be making an error. The reason is that the report does not say that there are estimated 10,000-13,000 slave victims in the UK. It says that there are estimated 10,000-13,000 potential slave victims, and of investigated potential slave victims only about half are during investigations found to be slavery victims.
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Which makes the point that you are on the side of the slave owners, and the side devoid of facts.