Debt Forced Labour In America Essay

One common problem in the eight century was the cycle of endless debt forced labor. The class structure of this time individuals of the elite class would lend money to someone that would belong to the poor class. The individual who was poor would take the money and use it to survive. However, these poor individuals will never be able to pay off the debt they acquire from the elite members of society. Because the poor can never pay off their debts, they pay back the elite that they owe with the labor of their bodies. Within this debt forced labor, they will never be able to pay fully off their debt and will be “working” for the elite for an extended period. This use of the poor makes them sound more like slaves than workers working to earn a decent living. The reason the poor will not be able to pay back the debt is because this society was not made to favor them. This society, like many today, is made so the wealthy, stay rich and get even …show more content…
In today’s society, we have American politicians such as Bernie Sanders and Hillary Rodham Clinton that are stepping up and using their voice to speak out against the break in class structures. We have big banks on Wall Street, who can be viewed as being similar the overpowering elite level of the eighth century in Israel. These banks also take advantage of the poor by offering loans that they know the poor will never be able to pay back. Although debt forced labor is not a condition that can be used in today’s society, banks rather seize all the assets of those that can not pay their debts. This seizure of debts is no better than the elites of the eighth century and forcing poor people to work off their debts for an unseemly amount of