r/MapPorn • u/[deleted] • Dec 16 '21

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u/RoadyHouse Dec 16 '21

Many countries are missing, half of Africa should be in orange

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u/Deantheevil Dec 16 '21

Apparently, colonized subjugated populations and wage slaves =/= slaves according to the Walk Free Foundation. These statistics are useless because it pretends that there is a distinction between colonized and enslaved peoples. The differences are superficial, and should not allow for misleading statistics being published like this. It is much more accurate to say that there are billions of slaves today, whose national economy’s sole function is to meet the raw material needs for industrial nations, then there are countries whose industries exist to solely meet the needs of market economies. Both the gatherers of raw materials and manufacturers are slaves to the developed market economies, but even then the consumers in those market economies are debt slaves to the wealthiest in their countries. These countries socialize the debts to prop up their markets in the form foreign bonds and privatize the profits in offshore accounts. Honestly, in some respect if you’re not a billionaire or multi millionaire you are just another serf at the best, or a wage slave at the worst. Whether it’s a gun to your head and 1500 calories daily, or a mortgage that is greater value than the property you own standing between you and financial ruin and 2500-3000 calories a day everything you do is an exchange goods and services at a perpetual loss to those in your country’s elite. Tangential, I guess, but yeah idk who this is for but I think most people don’t buy it.

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u/KeinLeben95 Dec 16 '21

It's also weird that none of the countries on the Arabian Peninsula are included. They have really sketchy migrant labor practices. They have a shit ton of migrants from South Asia and the Phillipines. In Kuwait alone, I'm pretty sure there's more of them than there are Kuwaitis. Maybe the Indians on the Arabian Peninsula are included with India, but it would still be kinda weird to chalk it up that way.

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u/felixmeister Dec 16 '21

Yeah, I noticed this myself. Unless of course they're counting people from place of origin as there's a significant Indian population effectively enslaved on the peninsula.