Eric Siegel wrote:
>
> > You're concise definition of slavery, "one group of humans
> > systematically degrading another for profit"
>
> Isn't there a piece missing from this?  The issue of whether the
> "another" can pick up and leave?  I mean this definition sounds like a
> good number of jobs I've had.  That was a mild joke, so hold off the
> blunderbusses.
>
> Eric

I think you would have to closely examine whether or not many people
could in reality, "pick up and leave."  It just is/was not that easy for
many.
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