Good day, amazing people of the Hive Blockchain. Welcome back to my blog. It is another edition in the #hivelearners community. I am so delighted to participate in this week's prompt, modern-day slavery.
In the early 90s people are being sold as slaves.My granny will always tell me stories of how people suffered during the slavery period. I will not lie; I always thank God that I wasn’t born during slavery. From my granny's story, slavery was really brutal. They were tied with chains, and their master flogged them, just like the name implied: slaves. They were being treated as animals and not humans.
There was a time my friends asked me if I really think that slavery has ended or if I think that it is modernised slavery. If I must say, slavery never ended; it was modernised. People no longer wear chains on their legs, and they are not physically beaten by their masters most times. I keep wondering if working in a private sector is a privilege or a bondage because the way we are being treated looks as if we are slaves working in private sectors.
As someone who is working in the private sector, you are expected to put in all your best time and energy, and at the end, you will receive peanuts from this sector for all your labour. There are so many in the private sector that don’t have regard for their workers; they are so selfish they don’t care about their welfare.
There is this scenario that happened in my hometown: a young lady will always come back to the village to carry young girls, promising them jobs and a better life. With excitement, the girls will pack their bags and follow her; unknown to them, they are going to work as sex workers for the lady.
They don’t have lives of their own; this is total slavery. Even the money they are making from the prostitution is still not their own. This is pure slavery but in a modernised way. They don’t own their lives; they don’t have the right to decide on what to do, and anytime someone will want to speak up, she will be killed immediately.
It may seem as if slavery is no more, but we are still slaves. Unknown to us, slavery is part of the system. No matter how we try to fight slavery, we can’t because it has been modernised. Even when you are being enslaved, you will not realise it; you will always think that they are doing you a big favour.
For me, I don’t think there is a way to stop slavery because people we work for will always treat us like trash. All we need to apply is wisdom. As for stopping slavery, I don’t think it will stop anytime soon.
Oh guys, do you think that slavery can be eradicated in the society? Drop your thoughts in the comment section.
This is my entry on the weekly prompts #hivelearners #hl-w179e3 topic: modern-day slavery.
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