332 | How the Congo's Cobalt Fuels Electric Vehicles, Batteries, and Modern-Day Slavery with Siddharth Kara
The Realignment
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What's the Definition of Slavery?
CNN's John Sutter talks with the author about his first episode on Cobalt Red. In it, he describes how slavery was used to refer to people being paid less than a dollar a day. He says today you can't own someone legally but that doesn't mean it's impossible to treat them as if you own them like property. "That's what people mean by modern day sleep or modern sleep"
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