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Comment author: ete 10 February 2015 08:00:56PM 0 points [-]

I'm curious as to why this was downvoted? China is definitely at the industrial level and there appears to be strong evidence for forced labor driving parts of the economy, which seems a relevant counter to the suggestion that there's not an economic incentive to enslave groups in the industrialized world.

Perhaps extracting forced labor from an internal group rather than captured neighbors is a more important distinction to some people?