Siddharth Kara

This isn't for us," right? But it wasn't hard to find.

And so I reflect on this, and I pick up a book called Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery about that specific part of the world, in part Nepal and India, written by a guy named Siddharth Kara, who's a brilliant economist, and he wrote on the economics of slavery.

He covers it at the microeconomic level of the actual cost of running a sex trafficking operation, as well as the macroeconomic impliment- implications on society.

It's a fascinating book.

They spent a lot of their life trying to help people not be slaves.

And one of them is a guy named Gary Haugen.

He founded International Justice Mission, and, uh, and then Siddharth Kara both decided to be lawyers.

And I thought, "Seems like a good thing to do.

This is-

Siddharth Kara.

I am a researcher on modern-day slavery and child labor and author of the book Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives.

For over twenty years, Siddharth has dedicated his life to understanding the conditions for workers at the bottom of the supply chain, the people who extract the resources that go into products that fuel the world economy.

William Henry Sheppard saw with his own eyes what King Leopold was really doing in Congo Free State.

He deployed this mercenary army to terrorize and enslave the Congolese people to gather rubber sap.

This is Siddharth Kara again.

And it was probably one of the greatest, meaning most horrific, episodes of colonial pillage and slavery in history.