Slavery is thriving even in Britain, as Police there find that hundreds of children, mostly black children, are vanishing from the schools each year.[1] Naturally Britain, socialist state that it is, is looking to solutions such as attempting to register each and every child and tracking them to try to solve the problem. But I think and fear that it can only truly be solved by a return of morality to the forefront of every day life. Interestingly, when I first read Mr. Belloc's essays, I dismissed this one as a prediction that he had gotten wrong. Later, I rethought it in terms of the similarities between slavery as it was and the debt system we have now. Now I am seeing that this is not just a problem in the third world, but even in a first world (declining, highly technical population) country like Britain. As police fail to curb this, I wonder if we will see this become more socially accepted in Europe. If so, it is only a matter of time before it migrates across the border to our own country, if it has not already (Sweat shops with immigrants working in them anyone?).
[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4541603.stm