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I mean, from what I've heard, prison slavery is really widespread in the US, and apparently (this one I'm not really sure about) prisoners are currently being used to put out the fires in LA.

And besides that, we (westeners) can nicely use all the poor countries we fucked over for all our slavery needs. As uncomfortable as it is to admit, the phone I'm using to type this most likely has had at least some slavery involved.

(P.S. as another commenter pointed out, the pyramids weren't built with slave labor. The ancient Greeks came to look at the pyramids much later and thought they were built by slaves because that's how the Greeks built their stuff.)