Imperial slavers often say that Imperial slavery isn't actually slavery, it's paying off a debt. It's the lie they use to make money from other people's debt fueled misery.
Imperial slavery is slavery with a fake smiley face.
People who gets into debt trouble they can't pay back are told "hey become an Imperial slave and work off your debt", what they aren't told is that this is just the first turn around a bitter cycle of slavery and debt.
Imperial slaves aren't paid much at all. Often times, it's just a little food and an air mattress on the floor and that's it. If you had to buy a slave and then pay them, you would just hire someone normally and just pay them. That's why people buy Imperial slaves because they work for next to nothing.
Then at the end of a year or seven years (no one is a slave for a week), where you aren't paid much if anything, so you can't save anything, you're 'released', sure your debt is paid, but you have no job and often no home. You can't rent a place because you have no job, no credit, you can't get a job because your recent job history was being a slave
if you had a rielative or friend who could help you out or hire you, you probably wouldn't have been a slave to start with. So you either get extremely lucky (win the lottery?) , or you run up debt again paying for food,rent etc(if someone will loan you money) and SURPRISE!!! you have to be slave again to pay it off and the whole cycle starts all over again.
That's the ugly truth about Imperial slavery that slavers don't want to talk about. Once you become a debt slave, it's very hard to get out.
I hear that the loan sharks who loan money to newly 'released' slaves at exorbitant rates are often a front for slavers themselves and when the poor ex-slave can't meet the high payments, they offer slavery as a way out again. Slavers can sell the same person many times over.
Imperial Slavery is Slavery, except it's worse. It's slavery with a lie that it's not. Slavery, Imperial or otherwise is wrong and treats humans like commodities with no more rights than a ton of biowaste. It needs to stop.
Imperial slavery is slavery with a fake smiley face.
People who gets into debt trouble they can't pay back are told "hey become an Imperial slave and work off your debt", what they aren't told is that this is just the first turn around a bitter cycle of slavery and debt.
Imperial slaves aren't paid much at all. Often times, it's just a little food and an air mattress on the floor and that's it. If you had to buy a slave and then pay them, you would just hire someone normally and just pay them. That's why people buy Imperial slaves because they work for next to nothing.
Then at the end of a year or seven years (no one is a slave for a week), where you aren't paid much if anything, so you can't save anything, you're 'released', sure your debt is paid, but you have no job and often no home. You can't rent a place because you have no job, no credit, you can't get a job because your recent job history was being a slave
if you had a rielative or friend who could help you out or hire you, you probably wouldn't have been a slave to start with. So you either get extremely lucky (win the lottery?) , or you run up debt again paying for food,rent etc(if someone will loan you money) and SURPRISE!!! you have to be slave again to pay it off and the whole cycle starts all over again.
That's the ugly truth about Imperial slavery that slavers don't want to talk about. Once you become a debt slave, it's very hard to get out.
I hear that the loan sharks who loan money to newly 'released' slaves at exorbitant rates are often a front for slavers themselves and when the poor ex-slave can't meet the high payments, they offer slavery as a way out again. Slavers can sell the same person many times over.
Imperial Slavery is Slavery, except it's worse. It's slavery with a lie that it's not. Slavery, Imperial or otherwise is wrong and treats humans like commodities with no more rights than a ton of biowaste. It needs to stop.
