I don't read the Guardian since the Manafort story. I can deal with spin, but when they start inventing events from scratch that's a hard pass. It is no way a more trustworthy source than alter.systems.
Anyway, I looked at it:
The definition of slavery has changed greatly. The graph in that article is titled "More than 40m people are working in slave-like conditions". Working in slave-LIKE conditions does not equal being a slave on a plantation 200 years ago.
The numbers still don't add up. May be in absolute figures there are more people in slave-LIKE conditions today than before, but as a percentage of all people it is 3-5x less.
My main point is that articles like this, between the lines and in a somewhat counterintuitive way make the point of slave owners from before: that slavery is a "natural law" and has always existed and will always exist. That is obviously false. Slaves dying for the entertainment of others was a headline public event in ancient Rome. It is not today.
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