@Readin, On consideration, slavery is still on the political
spectrum, albeit on a different axis
of theft (
of human resources), where the extreme would be slavery on one
end, moving over to various forms
of cruel peonage, then to sweatshops, then to low pay dead
end jobs with wage theft, the same without wage theft, the same with benefits, and so on up, the
opposite side being no theft at all so that a
given laborer is paid their fair share.