In the video titled “Kevin Bales: How to Combat Modern Slavery”, Kevin Bales states the prices traffickers put on victims and expresses what he believes we must do to help those trapped in trafficking rings and those who have freed themselves from traffickers. 27 million people are victims of human trafficking today, and the average cost of those slaves is $90 each, ranging from slaves being as expensive as $8,000 in first world countries and as cheap as $10 in third world countries. (“Kevin Bales: How to Combat Modern Slavery”). Bales covers the point that we must not buy people out of slavery. If we were to buy victims out of human trafficking, it would only encourage the trafficking business to obtain more slaves. Another important issue
