“The discrepancy between the alleged number of victims per year and the number of cases they’ve been able to make is so huge that it’s got to raise major questions,” Weitzer said. “It suggests that this problem is being blown way out of proportion.”

As a descendant of slaves if even one person is living like this it is one person to many. Slaver is actually cheaper than it ever has been with the average cost of an adult male slave running about $80US. Even if they are not specifically residing in the country many of the items that regularly consume are made from slave labor (eg. chocolate) Not only do we need to penalize the individual slave traders we need to sanction the companies that do business with them in order to increase profits. At some point we need to recognize that people matter.