Kevin Bales: How to combat modern slavery
www.ted.com In this moving yet pragmatic talk, Kevin Bales explains the business of modern slavery, a multibillion-dollar economy that underpins some of the worst industries on earth. He shares stats and personal stories from his on-the-ground research — and names the price of freeing every slave on earth right now.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com
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Comment by lucius215 on 24 January 2011:
@candiceevans1 well, Lets use your word, How would you suggest we reverse this Morphing? Its not like they will let us lol..Unless, we Pull The green beautifull On em. something similar anyway
Comment by candiceevans1 on 24 January 2011:
@lucius215 THATS NOT CAPITALISM,,,,WELL ITS NOT FREE MARKET CAPITALISM,,,WHAT YOURE DESCRIBING IS CORPORATISM ITS MORPHING INTO FACISM QUICKLY,,,WE MUST ACT AND GET RID OF THE FED ASAP
Comment by lucius215 on 24 January 2011:
@Nonoyawns i dont see how you own yourself in capitalism. your in Debt the second you leave the womb.
Comment by aristotelian21 on 24 January 2011:
This guy has done so much, its incredible. P.S he is such good speaker!!
Comment by Nonoyawns on 24 January 2011:
If you cite slavery as extreme capitalism, you’re simply mistaken. A fundamental aspect of capitalism and libertarianism in general is that the individual owns themself, and no one has a right to control them unless they affect the property of others. Slavery is the antithesis of libertarianism and capitalism. If anything, slavery results from having no government to protect rights, or an authoritarian state (communism, fascism, ect.).
Comment by SCRYER1973 on 24 January 2011:
@funicula83: In a Capitalist society, no individual may initiate force against anyone. It was the agrarian south in the U.S. that practiced the old feudal-slave system of Europe. It was the Capitalist industrial north that wiped it out. A country’s freedom corresponds to the degree its government model departs from socialism. State-controlled capitalism (fascism and socialism) has never worked yet it is always Laissez-faire that gets the blame for their abuses,
Comment by GrudgyDiablo on 24 January 2011:
27 million slaves globally ?
that’s truly an uneasy revelation !
didn’t expect that at all..
Comment by misiobear77 on 24 January 2011:
He forgot to mention about existing monarchies on this world. Quite superficial way of approaching this subject.
Comment by maroonvelvetgirl on 24 January 2011:
ah this is very saddening.. very disheartening
Comment by maroonvelvetgirl on 24 January 2011:
OMG this is mind blowing! My country is in the orange sign and i know nothing about it
Comment by importfilta on 24 January 2011:
@vpaczkowski White america? Aren’t white people a minority?
Comment by heartlessvietboy on 24 January 2011:
This is classic American writing. Tell me guys, do you see slavery anywhere?
Comment by planktonicorganism on 24 January 2011:
great talk.
i’ve seen though other estimates that the number of child slaves/child laborers is more like 240 million.
maybe different criteria?
Comment by MrXstacey on 24 January 2011:
He mentions iceland and greenland with no records of slavery, I do remember a commentary by Lanier Phillips about 1942 or at least prior to, that blacks at the time were not allowed to step foot on Icelandic soil. I would assume if this were the law that other races at the time were also being excluded, but it’s only an assumption. If they were exclusionary about “outsiders” could that have been a contributor to the reason for no slavery data? Just a thought.
Comment by brazosdedios on 24 January 2011:
Very interesting talk and it sounds like he is doing a very good work but rational intellect alone is not what will free people, nor having the rule of law in civil government. People’s motives and desires must be ruled by law, a standard of justice outside of self. As long as some are ruled in their heart by selfish desires then they will find a way to oppress others.
Comment by funicula83 on 24 January 2011:
Capitalism is organized abuse.
People need resources, not money.
Money is just an invention to share resources.
We need a way to think out of the box, we cannot be blind.
Capitalism is not working.
To tell the truth, investments, profit, interest rates, are all constructions
in the hands of few people controlling the distribution.
The mass counts always as a reaction,
Never as a cause.
We need to go back
and take our world.
Comment by meshanimcom on 25 January 2011:
it looks like a spin, hiding the mass slavery caused by the big companies like IBM.
Comment by Rochford95 on 25 January 2011:
I hate this fucking stuff.
Comment by vpaczkowski on 25 January 2011:
Slavery in America is called the War on Drugs. First they created fear of Blacks and Hispanics on drugs raping white women. Then white America passes laws against drugs and prosecutes predominantly Black and Hispanics at first. When you are in prison you either work or you go to the hole. So we got Slavery again in the United States. In Louisiana they even pick cotton.
Comment by TheRationalizer on 25 January 2011:
@RichGriese
In the UK it’s often illegal immigrants who have been smuggled in by criminal organisations, thinking they have a legitimate job waiting for them when they get here they end up in a brothel.
Comment by nothersheep on 25 January 2011:
@RichGriese, look for more information on sex slavery, and you’ll get a better idea of where.
Comment by RichGriese on 25 January 2011:
wait a minute… did he say that there are slaves in the USA? is there any more information I can find out about thins? where are they?
Comment by xjustamem0ryx on 25 January 2011:
@TravisMorien
wasn’t meant to sidestep importance. it was just to throw another form of slavery on the pile albeit more abstract.
Comment by TravisMorien on 25 January 2011:
@liquidminds There are different kinds of regulation, and protectionism is usually a bad thing too. Australia has very little protectionism besides quarantine on certain fruits and vegetables, few tariffs and unions which for the most part make reasonable demands. One of the problems the US faces is that it has grown accustomed to propping up unprofitable industries in a way which is very NON-free market. There is a legitimate debate, which country is the truer capitalist, Australia or USA?
Comment by liquidminds on 25 January 2011:
@TravisMorien: OK.. so the whole misunderstanding between us, was based on the fact that you were talking about the specific australien type of capitalism, that is very well regulated, while I was talking about the extreme-capitalism enforced by major US and European corporations that want to have their own playground stripped of all rules there are.
A well regulated capitalism is something I could live with. The current world-model is just too far away from beeing well-regulated for me to like