Funferal

Compassionate slavery, anyone?

There were no other questions from the audience that took issue with Schmidt’s proposal.

That’s the damning outcome of a talk given by a ‘WTO representative’ at Wharton Business School, advocating the introduction of ‘compassionate slavery’:

At a Wharton Business School conference on business in Africa, World Trade Organization representative Hanniford Schmidt announced the creation of a WTO initiative for “full private stewardry of labor” for the parts of Africa that have been hardest hit by the 500 years of Africa’s free trade with the West.
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To prove that human stewardry can work, Schmidt cited a proposal by a free-market think tank to save whales by selling them. “Those who don’t like whaling can purchase rights to specific whales or groups of whales in order to stop those particular whales from getting whaled as much,” he explained. Similarly, the market in Third-World humans will “empower” caring First Worlders to help them, Schmidt said.
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One conference attendee asked what incentive employers had to remain as stewards once their employees are too old to work or reproduce. Schmidt responded that a large new biotech market would answer that worry. He then reminded the audience that this was the only possible solution under free-market theory.
There were no other questions from the audience that took issue with Schmidt’s proposal.
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Throughout the comments by Schmidt and his three co-panelists, which lasted 75 minutes, Schmidt’s stewardee, Thomas Bongani-Nkemdilim, remained standing at respectful attention off to the side.
“This is what free trade’s all about,” said Schmidt. “It’s about the freedom to buy and sell anything–even people.”

Not quite the same tactic as HUDD announcing a just housing policy, but just as incisive.