So there's this website, slaveryfootprint.org, that allows the user to enter data about themselves such as their location, age/gender, household information, personal spending habits, eating habits, shopping habits, and tons of other stuff. From that data, it calculates how many "slaves work for you" to keep up with your demand on economies and labor industries run by slave labor. It's a really interesting site to check out. I spent about twenty minutes filling my info out (hint: if you click the toggle switch on the left of the screen it allows you to give super precise information which probably makes it a bit more accurate), and this is what it spit out at me:
The things that affected my score the most were: number of dresses I own (it's really ludicrous - 50 is a bit much), number of pairs of underwear I own (...), the amount of pillows on my bed, and the fact that I have more than two types of body wash, conditioner, and shampoo in my shower. Shit! It's weird to think about how the seemingly smallest things can really be that detrimental to someone in a completely different part of the world. Just some food for thought!
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