Going Cheap

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Going Cheap
Today slave labor is going not only cheaper, but also tending to be disposable. Three reasons contributed to this trend. First of all, the world’s population is increasing sharply. Secondly, economy is growing and globalizing. Finally, government is powerless in controlling slave labour. Slave-made products were hidden behind the global economy and may be consumed by western consumer in the end. So far no effective solutions have been found to eliminate slave labour because it is very difficult to track down the course of a product’s origin. Unfortunately, human trafficking tended to be expanding recently, but government are still struggling to take actions to prevent such trend, as well as, businesses were trying to detect the slavery among their suppliers. In fact, exporting and importing slave labor took place in many countries. The programs for liberating slaves are now on the way in many countries, although they are now in the baby stage, at least they are growing everyday.
The title sounds attractive, everyone wants to buy something cheap, but when I finished this article, I was shocked that some people even children in some places of the world are suffering from both physical torture and psychological abuse. It is important to draw the media attention and increase the public awareness.
In some countries or some places, some people did experience with the slave labor or physical and psychological abuse, however, once government ruled business strictly, no factory or plantation would hire slave labor. For example, government will set a series of policies including living condition, the lowest salary and freedom of labors. Each factory must register for its labors in an organization, like labor numbers, labor origin and labor personal information. In addition, officer will monitor these companies on a regular basis. Once government show how strict the policies are, no company would take a risk....