It's incredible that actual literal slavery is still a thing to this day... and the left doesn't care

For many decades in the very recent past (as in, even up to the 2000's), and possibly even to this day, there was quite a slavery problem in several Middle-Eastern countries.

I don't know if it's still the case today (because the issue has been brought up in international media and light shed on the problem internationally), but for example Qatar had actual bona fide slavery for decades, up to at least the early 2000's, and possibly even to this day.

It worked like this: Many factory owners would import workers primarily from sub-Saharan Africa (which makes it extra ironic and blatant), confiscate and keep their travel and identification documents, and keep them working in the factories for inhumanely long hours (usually 12 hours and even more), and sleeping in absolutely deplorable conditions in what usually amounted to little more than warehouses stuffed with beds. Doors of both the factories and the sleeping quarters were almost always kept locked to stop them from leaving, and they were forced to work at the factories every day whether they wanted or not. And, of course, their "salary" was not given to them directly, but only promised to be given to them by the end of their job "contract" (which might or might not have been honored by the factory owners.) Even then, even if they eventually were let go and given the promised salary, it was absolutely pitiable, absolutely abysmal, a minuscule fraction of what a normal worker in such a job would receive even in Qatar.

Of course even if some of them did somehow manage to escape, they would have no place to escape to. Without their papers they had absolutely no way to leave the country, so they would just be fugitives in a hostile country, where they immediately stood out because of their outwards appearance. So, in a way, locking the doors was more a question of convenience and expedience for the factory owners than to prevent them from actually escaping, as it prevented the lost work hours due to the futile escape attempts.

And what's worse, at least back then (perhaps even to this day), the police was completely corrupted there and would enforce this situation rather than helping. Unsurprisingly, a lot of bribery was going on, with the factory owners paying cops.

So yes, it's not "slavery" in some kind of figurative sense or as some kind of exaggeration, but completely literally: Workers kept imprisoned in factories and sleeping quarters, not allowed to leave as they wanted, with all of their property confiscated and controlled by the owners, and forced to work lest they be punished, essentially for no money, and with authorities helping enforce the situation.

And if you thought this only happens in some backwater Middle-Eastern countries, you would be wrong. Pretty much the same thing happens in the west too, to one degree or another. It might not always be so utterly blatant and exploitative as above, but most of the hallmarks are still there.

Sometimes it's astonishingly egregious. (Why am I not surprised that this happened in the UK?)

There's one rather curious thing about all this, though: The modern far left doesn't care.

For decades they have been touting from the rooftops how slavery is pretty much the worst crime in existence, and have been banging on that drum constantly, and are demanding "reparations", and have gained an astonishing amount of power and control on society by blaming it for slavery and yada yada yada. To them slavery is the biggest sin and crime against humanity that has ever existed.

Yet, here we have cases of actual bona fide slavery happening to this day... and the left just doesn't care. They don't talk about it, they don't bring attention to it, they don't organize protests against it, they don't demand something to do about it. They just don't care. Even if the issue is directly brought up to them in conversation, they don't care.

Isn't that curious?