The depreciation of the dollar vs. the depreciation of a human below the equator
Posted on March 23, 2008
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Every day we fret about the dollar, but some things have gotten cheaper, not more expensive.
That would be a human life. In the 1850s, a slave would cost around $30,000 to $40,000 (adjusted for inflation). Today, the average cost of a slave is a trip to the grocery store: 90 bucks.
That would be, 90 bucks for someone usually below the equator; the only continents exporting being South America, Africa, and Asia.
NPR published an article about Benjamin Skinner, and author who traveled to Haiti and bought a 9-year-old girl for $50. Skinner said in the article, “‘I pulled up in a car and rolled down the window,’ he recalls. ‘Someone said, ‘Do you want to get a person?’” Skinner then made an analogy to buying a used stereo off the street.
MSNBC aired a special yesterday highlighting the crackdown of massage parlors in San Francisco, Calif., where Asian women were selling themselves as sex slaves.
According to Free the Slaves, a global anti-slavery org., the 27 million in slavery today could all have no fear, only freedom in 25 years… With the help of the government.
–The same government worried about the depreciation of the dollar used to buy the depreciated human.
If I’m worth $90, these two fingers that are crossed are almost worthless.
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