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SOCIAL SLAVERY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
The enriched social class (the businessman, the investor and the
lender) takes over the means of production, accumulating large
amounts of property and economic value, and even the
administration, to carry out its particular plan of enriching
itself from the work effort of the citizens, not caring if the
worker should take an attitude of humiliating subordination or if
sectors of the population are left in an impoverished situation, or
in the 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, or in other words, the worker's life is in the hands of the employer, he decides who works and who doesn't, what it is nothing but an unacceptable condition of dependency and subordination that forces the worker to take an attitude of extreme servility before the employer. Although the worker has the possibility of refusing the job, in fact he cannot do it, because his life and that of his family depends on it.
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 happens
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 businessman and investor have the right to obtain benefits and enrich themselves from the effort they make workers do at work, when the work activity is carried out to obtain the goods we need to cover the needs of the population. This is exploitation of man by man, this is another situation of SLAVERY.
Apparently it is not for public opinion or for the ruling politicians that these situations constitute humiliating or inhuman treatment, it is not inhuman that some have the power to decide over the lives of others or that they enrich themselves from their work or are unemployed, impoverished, or working in casual jobs with low pay, because in fact, they are not even condemned by law, that is, it is legal to impoverish, exploit and enrich oneself from the work of another, is this not an inadmissible abuse of power?
Are these situations not avoidable? Are we not capable of organizing society without these abuses of power by the wealthy sector? These situations are perfectly avoidable if production and work are organized from the administration. The administration has the obligation to make these situations disappear from human coexistence, it must carry out the social changes that must be carried out in the organization of productive and commercial life, in property and in the economy, legislating what must be legislated for private persons stop having the power to decide on the lives of citizens and so that work stops being an exploitation of man by man, eliminating poverty, unemployment and precarious contracts.
PEOPLE'S LIVES CANNOT DEPEND ON PERSONAL DECISIONS WITH PRIVATE INTERESTS.
If the world of work is organized by the personal and particular interests of the sector of the population that is made up of the rich and powerful businessmen, these situations will never be overcome, because they only seek their personal benefits. If the means of production (companies) are privately owned, each company and each employer will maintain production with the minimum number of workers possible. 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 a slave, there are other unacceptable situations:
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Poverty
- Homeless people sleeping on the street
- Hunger
- Living in the landfills
- Child labor
- Poverty with work
- Unemployment
- Slave labor
- Precariousness at work
- Emigrations
- Evictions
- Etc..
Poverty.- 2.8 Billion people live on less than 2 dollars a day. Over a 1.000 Millions human beings live on less than a dollar a day (UN).(More information in Poverty).
Homeless people sleeping on the street.- 1,600 people live in inadequate housing close to 900 million live in informal settlements. (More information in Homeless on the street).
Hunger.- 900 million suffer from hunger.
Living in the landfills.- More than 15 million informal waste collectors in the world (women, children, the elderly, unemployed or immigrants), continue to live off the dumps of large cities in unsanitary conditions, lack of social protection or health insurance and persistent social stigma.(More information in Living in the landfills).
Child labor.- 150 million boys and girls between the
ages of 5 and 17 who do some kind of work (ILO).
(More information in Poverty).
Poverty with work.- More than 630 million workers worldwide continue to live in extreme or moderate poverty (ILO 2020).
Unemployment.- 61% of the world workforce, around 2000 million workers worldwide are employed informally (ILO 2020).
Precariousness at work.-4 out of 10 workers are precarious globally.(ILO).
Emigrations.- In 2020 there were approximately 281 million international migrants in the world. (IOM).
Evictions.- No data.
However, the wealth of the rich and the number of rich increases even in times of crisis:
- The richest 1% accumulate almost twice the wealth of 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 extreme poverty in the world up to seven times.(Ofxam).
- 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. (Ofxam).
- The latest data from "Credit Suisse" indicates that 42 people currently own the same wealth as the poorest 3.700 million people in the world.
FOR A FEW TO LIVE IN THE CLOUD OF ABUNDANCE, A THIRD OF THE POPULATION HAS TO LIVE IN POVERTY AND WORKERS UNDER THE CONDITION OF EXPLOITED.
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.
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.
Although in the slavery of past centuries they had even less freedom than now, today the majority of the population lives on what the rich and powerful want to give.
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, finds his justification to commit his acts by revealing himself against the rest of the population.
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.