Modern Slavery Research Paper

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Modern slavery.
Are we really a democratic and free world? or is it that the modern rulers of the world have just evolved in their strategies to still control and slave the world?
This is what the zeitgeist movement want us to see.
That or society is founded on a scam, a deception so deeply inserted in all of us, that we have embraced it as the way it is.
Money. The prime material of the monetary system in which we are slaves, working to earn enough to cost our basic necesities and benefit only the ones on the top of the pyramid, who control us through debt. A Clandestine empire that rules the world but we can't actually see.
As a society we must end this acquisitive and competitive system that is rotting our planet and our people. In a

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