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SOCIAL SLAVERY IN THE 21ST CENTURY

 

cosedoras indiaThe enriched social class (the businessman, the investor and the lender) seizes the means of production, accumulating large amounts of property and economic value and even the administration, to carry out its particular plan to enrich itself from the effort of the work of the citizens, not caring if the worker must take an attitude of humiliating subordination or if sectors of the population remain in an impoverished situation, or in a work stoppage.

 

When an employer decides whether or not to hire a worker, it is in his power to grant the worker the job and therefore the salary that will allow him to cover his needs and those of his family. That the employer can make this decision about the worker is to grant the employer the power to decide over the worker's life. This is a master and servant relationship.

 

That a private person has the power to decide over the life of another is nothing more than SLAVERY, and we have this slavery today in our companies, day by day and pretending that it goes unnoticed, without giving it any importance.

 

But if this situation in obtaining a job is humiliating, no less is the fact that when you are working, you are under the condition of being exploited, that is, the employer and investor have the right to obtain benefits and enrich themselves from the effort that workers make at work, when the work activity is carried out to obtain the goods that we need to cover the needs of the entire population. This is EXPLOITATION OF MAN BY MAN, this is another situation of SLAVERY.

 

Although in slavery in past centuries they lacked all freedom, today the majority of the population lives off what the rich and powerful want to give them. It is not the same slavery, but it is still slavery.

   

PEOPLE'S LIFE CANNOT DEPEND ON PERSONAL DECISIONS WITH PRIVATE INTERESTS.

 

If the productive and commercial society is organized by the sector of rich and powerful businessmen, the population will always be subservient to their particular interests. If production is already producing everything that consumption requires, the businessman will do nothing if important sectors of the population are left unemployed, without work or without remuneration that allows him and his family to live.

 

In addition to the worker being exploited, there are other unacceptable situations:

 

 

 

 

 

hombre pobre- Poverty

- Homeless people sleeping on the street.

- Hunger.

- Living in the dumps.

- Child labor.

- Extreme slave labor.

- Poverty working.

- Unemployment.

- Low pensions.

- Limited unemployment benefits.

- Emigrations.

- Evictions.

- Etc.

 

Poverty.- 2,800 million people live on less than 2 dollars a day and more than 1,000 million human beings live on less than a dollar a day (UN 2021). (More details on the Poverty page).

 

Homeless people sleeping in the street.- 1,600 people live in inadequate housing, close to 900 million live in informal settlements. (More information in Homeless in the street).

 

Hunger.- The number of hungry people in the world increased to reach 828 million in 2021. (FAO).

 

Living in landfills.- More than 15 million informal garbage collectors in the world (women, children, the elderly, the unemployed or immigrants) continue to live in the garbage dumps of large cities in unsanitary conditions, without social protection or health insurance and persistent social stigma. (More information in Living in landfills).

 

cargando ladrillosChild labor.- 150 million boys and girls between the ages of 5 and 17 who do some kind of work (OIT). (More information in Poverty).

 

Extreme slavery work.- 49.6 million people lived in conditions of modern slavery in 2021, of which 27.6 million in a situation of forced labor and 22 million in a situation of forced marriage, (OIT).

 

Working poverty.- More than 630 million workers around the world continue to live in extreme or moderate poverty. 4 out of 10 workers are precarious worldwide. (ILO 2020).

 

Unemployment.- 61% of the global labor force, around 2 billion workers worldwide are informally employed (ILO 2020).

 

MORE THAN HALF OF THE ACTIVE POPULATION ARE WORKING IN PRECARIOUS JOBS

 

Emigration.- In 2020 there were approximately 281 million international migrants in the world. (IOM).

 

Evictions.- In Spain there have been 782,576 evictions in 12 years, 179 every day and the constitutional guarantees of housing and protection of citizens have not always been respected by the administration of Justice. According to the INE, it is estimated that in Spain there are 3.5 million empty homes, therefore, it is a matter of adequate regulation. (More details on the Poverty page).

 

POVERTY CANNOT BE ADMITTED IN ANY WAY.

 

However, the wealth of the rich and the number of rich increases even in times of crisis:

 

- The richest 1% accumulate almost twice as much wealth as the rest of the world population in 2022 (Ofxam Intermon).

 

- The year 2017 saw the largest increase in history in the number of fortunes exceeding one billion dollars, with a new billionaire every two days. In 12 months, the wealth of this elite has increased by 762,000 million dollars, this increase could have ended up to seven times with extreme poverty in the world. (Ophham).

 

- 82% of the growth of world wealth during this year of 2017, went to the hands of the richest 1%, while the poorest 50% of the world population did not increase their wealth at all. (Ophham).

 

- The latest data from "Credit Suisse" indicates that 42 people currently own the same wealth as the poorest 3.7 billion people in the world.

 

FOR A FEW TO LIVE IN THE CLOUD OF ABUNDANCE, ONE THIRD OF THE POPULATION HAS TO LIVE IN POVERTY.

 

Are we or are we not slaves to those who seize the means of production? They allow themselves to make us poor and work as exploited for them, creating precarious and humiliating situations, while they get rich from these situations. Because let's not fool ourselves, they need the population to live in poverty so that we accept the conditions they offer.

 

reciclando plastico THE OWNERS OF THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION AND THEIR COMMERCIALIZATION NEED THE POPULATION TO LIVE IN POVERTY SO THAT WE ACCEPT THE CONDITIONS THAT BENEFIT THEM (EXPLOITATION, LOW WAGES, TEMPORARY WORK, PRECARIOUSNESS, UNEMPLOYMENT, ETC...), THIS IS ANOTHER CONSEQUENCE OF SLAVERY AND INADMISSIBLE ABUSE OF POWER OVER THE POPULATION.

 

 Yes, private productive companies are productive, but they are at the cost of subjecting the majority of the population to the desire to increase the wealth of a minority sector.

 

It is in poverty, in the exploitation of man by man and job insecurity (all consequences of the privatized production system), where the thief, the murderer, the drug addict and the suicide bomber finds his justification to commit his acts by revealing himself against this abuse of power.

 

No one was born to be the servant or subordinate of another, only the subordination required by the organization of work itself without exploitation of man by man is admissible.