Opinion

Slavery, a practice we often associate with chains, whips, and oppressive labor, has supposedly been abolished for more than a century. However, in today’s world, slavery has taken on a different, more insidious form—one that doesn't involve physical chains but instead invisible shackles in the form of debt, wage labor, and corporate exploitation. This is the slavery of the modern capitalist system, where billions of people are tied down by loans, suffocated by interest rates, and held captive by the never-ending cycle of consumerism. (more…)