Whats so offensive about Christianity

[Strider]

What makes you think slaves were not compensated in anyway? All slave owners work with carrots and sticks. The Carrots were compensation above basic living conditions. and the stick was usally a stick..

The same is true today. These people dont make a living wage, meaning their lives/families have to be subsidized in some form or fashion. The worst of the worst do not subsidize, and just leave their people to make try and make it on their own, even after a full days work.

This is what happens when people like you pretend that everyone is just low paid.

Drich, no, slaves were not compensated with money. At all.

Now, I agree with you in that these people are often working in absolutely wretched conditions for a mere pittance. It's not slavery though. Slavery is holding someone against his will and forcing him to work or whatever. These people are being forced to work in this places. They may feel there is no other choice, but they are not required to be there. That's the difference. We can call this type of labor horrible and awful and an atrocity, but we can't call it slavery because they aren't engaging in the work against their will.

Educate yourself before you speak on a topic.
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Ar...5088.shtml

Hell, in that very article it says that the cutting season only lasts five to eight months. Slavery isn't part-time, Drich. As I said earlier, this sounds atrocious, but it still isn't slavery despite the tossing about of catchy phrases such as "modern slavery".

Here are pictures of 'modern plantion workers along side 200 year old examples. if they were all put in the same format you could not tell them apart.
https://www.google.com/search?q=modern+s...d=0CDoQsAQ

Put me in a hat in a field and snap a picture. You won't be able to tell the difference between that and others picking fruit or veggies either.

Slavery is alive and well my friend. Google Modern Indian textile production or indian tannery
https://www.google.com/search?q=modern+i...d=0CB0QsAQ

Again the only thing that has changed in these industries in the last 500 years is increased demand, and the cancer causing compounds/tanning solutions and dyes they swim in to produce our shoes and clothing.

Yes, the methods are environmentally damaging and hazardous to their health. But, again, workers are not forced to work there. Now you seem to be equating having to work with dangerous chemicals and hazardous conditions with slavery. If that's what you're doing, you might as well say that the hundreds of thousands of people who had to work with asbestos a few decades back were enslaved.