Slavery

It's a sin

I don't want anyone to be my slave, even if you should be, or are willing.

There's a passage in the bible, "do you not know that you are not your own?" or some such thing. I say you are. You own yourself.

Anyway, there are, according to this TED LECTURE (Link), 27 million slaves in our modern-day world (2010). That's quite a number. I'm a slave to eliminating slavery. And they can all be freed -and maintained free- for 10.8 billion dollars, according to Kevin Bales of __.

There is hope.

slaves are "dirt cheap" (as low as 5 bucks, averaging $90) Historically, 40k.
40B dollars of the global economy are derived from slave labor.
We have to do it right this time, not "dumped" like America's botched 1865 emancipation.
India still has hereditary slavery.
Kevin Bales thinks we aren't truly free unless all humanity is.

$10,800,000,000 divided by 27,000,000 slaves is only 400 bucks a person.