When people buy slaves, what they get is control, and they use violence to maintain that control. The new slavery is a booming business, and the number of slaves is increasing. People get rich by using slaves. And when they are finished with them, they just throw them away. This new slavery focuses on big profits and cheap lives.
People become completely disposable tools for making money.
Slaves are all around us. Bales reports instances of young girls forced to be prostitutes in cities in England, others held captive as domestic servants in London and Paris. Farm workers have been found in the United States locked in barracks and working in the fields under armed guards. Enslaved Thai and Philippine women have been freed from brothels in New York, Seattle and Los Angeles. Evidence at a criminal trial in New York City in 1995 established that 30 Thai women had been locked into the upper floors of a Manhattan building.