s&#x2F;slavery&#x2F;indentured servitude&#x2F;<p>By definition slavery isn&#x27;t voluntary. Not that this changes your argument; servitude is banned internationally for approximately the same reasons as slavery.<p>&gt; people accepting [less than minimum wage] jobs are in a better position than if the jobs weren&#x27;t available<p>This is yet another example of the problem of using &quot;profit&quot; as the primary (or only) metric for human progress.<p>Are the people given non-livable wages in a <i>more profitable</i> position than if those jobs weren&#x27;t available? Does the job improve their situation in general? Is the job using using low wages Wallmart-style to offload a portion of their personnel costs on taxpayers by paying such a small amount all employees are expected to always use government services?[1]<p>It is of vital importance to ask a wide variety of these questions. Using a single metric is p almost always going to give you an incomplete view of the situation.<p>[1] 
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