How many slaves do you 'employ'? Or: what's your Slavery Footprint?

I apparently have 26 slaves working for me, according to Slavery Footprint. How many slaves are working for you?

Certain definitions of 'slave' include just about everyone who has a job.

22 slaves woohoo

I wonder what their names are

I got 20, I'm more virtuous than you

33, even though my car and most of my clothes aren't made where they seem to assume they are.

ya I only buy clothes from american apparel and I'm waiting until they get into the auto industry so I can finally buy a car

actually own four slaves, dunno bout any other notional ones tbh

the food part was confusing.

but i think i have 33 slaves working for me.

Their website is slow, clearly they don't have enough slaves employed to shovel coal into the boilers.

29, and I assume most of them are related to my technology products (iMac, iPad, 2 x digital cameras, iPod, TV, etc.)

I only employ one...
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39958000/jpg/_39958085_princeslave_203.jpg

43 slaves? Is it because I drink so much gin and coffee? I feel like I live a pretty minimal life.

@Ian, the food part is confusing indeed. Asking me how many nuts... are they nuts?

This site was designed to be viewed on standard desktops, laptops and tablets only.

This browser is not supported, please revisting the survey using the latest version of Chrome.

guess this means i have 0 slaves

it was a nicely designed website

Can't wait for HOOS to do this and top us all just so I can say Big HOOS aka The Slavedriver

really tedious, near the end i stopped changing anything bc i got bored

really tedious, near the end i stopped changing anything bc i got bored

exactly

do u see

thought assuming 50 pair of pants/denim was odd

haha yeah and leather shoes

were there guy specific questions? i imagine if you answered "male" they didn't give you options for mascara, perfume, and various other cosmetic items i couldn't identify, so i just assumed i did not own them.

No, in the make up section you could still add mascara or perfume etc

as a male

well the last question was 'have you paid for sex' - did girls not get that?

that's very enlightened! it made me realize that i am pretty spartan when it comes to cosmetics.

xp - yes, we got the "have you paid for sex" question too

then presumably it was the same throughout

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I tried to max everything out and got 164

hmm

for shame, max :(

There should have been a running total so you could see what influence every choice had. (*pulls slider from 1 to 2 pistachios* : WHAT! FOUR extra slaves???)

this is really annoying to take

also i question its methodologies

also i think this is a generally unhelpful way to conceptualize slavery/labor/'globalization' cf that other thread

37 - kinda doubt they're getting steady work though, a lot of my large quantities of items are a result of being a pack rat. yes, i have 4 camcorders. all but one is over 10 years old.

also apparently "cardigans" are really influencing my score??

Hey if you call on the warranty they're there, Sarahel

xp

xp I had that with socks...

focus should be on how much you buy/consume, not how much you own right now

otm

somebody who owns one laptop could have had that laptop for 8 years or could have gone through 10 laptops in 8 years

ehh this is concern trolling, don't get all defensive

But what do all my slaves eat and where were their clothes made?

are they happy with how I treat them?

http://i39.tinypic.com/6zmv83.jpg

76 for my 4 person household, but I may have gone overboard on how much jewelry my wife has (she has a lot of stuff she never pulls out) and I really didn't understand how the food section worked.

it was a nicely designed website

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i disagree! it was ugly and obnoxious to use.

first world problems

64! woohoo!

Have the next button be a small arrow pointing down on the right side is a terrible design choice.

Socks and underwear affected my score the most?

53 Slaves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CaG01PMDwc

oh, i fine tuned my wardrobe choices and now i have 41 slaves. apparently that's the price society pays because i'm lazy about doing laundry on a regular basis?

you've made how many people unemployed, in other words?

I'm not sure how my 48 slaves continue to produce socks I bought, like, 7 years ago.

apparently i cant check my slave holdings on my phone. or is having the kind of phone where you would attempt to check your slave holdingsvthe equivalent of "tilt" here?

Love that a "technophobe" has tv, camera, phone, pc, dvd player, plus a mysterious oval black box.

don't you ever take away my mysterious oval black box

4 slaves died for your mysterious oval black box.

Ouch, I turned all the clothing sliders down from their default and still clothing is my biggest contributing factor (though I think I drastically underestimated on the food screen because it was boring clicking on everything, and on the gadget screen because I only counted stuff I use regularly, which now I think about it is I guess the opposite of the point)

that website does not work for me

16. Yeah the electronics assumptions were a bit high.

I would totally have more if I could though.

i have 0 slaves

you shld get some; everyone else has them

just curious if a slave used this website how many slaves it would say that they own.

i gave up at the food part.

need a slave to figure out what was going on there.

wtf was that?? the proportions all auto-adjusted so that they fucked up proportions you had previously set where you wanted them.

apparently they think i need a slave to make sure things add to 100

it would be nice if on the last page they at least had some cursory explanation as to how various things we own relate to slavery instead of just trying to make people feel bad in a very abstract way

this thing would be (and I'm sure has been) done decently w/ carbon emissions

the site sure wants to know a lot about you; part of me wondered if it was a front for some weird marketing thing.

what is your guilt footprint

nah it's just some tiny nonprofit in oakland looks like

oh wait huh

this might be kinda connected to some xtian bay area friends of mine

sez googling

hmmm 26 slaves. that's not so many slaves.

yeah this thing is xtiany at its source, not surprising

I couldn't adjust the wardrobe portion for some strange reason so ending up with 56 slaves. I don't know what number I would have had if I hadn't been assigned 50 pairs of jeans or whatever ridiculous number it was.

i couldn't adjust the food knobs. also there was no "i eat mostly slim jims and saltines" option.

38 slaves

this feels deeply ironic somehow

don't let's make this more awkward than it already is

Iatee, i think there's a number of websites do similar for carbon emissions, and in a much more useful/informative way

This seems deeply flawed, even if all of the adjustments were in working order for everyone. Like the food section assuming you aren't growing any of your own food, for example.

To be fair, I barely grow any of mine. (The tomato in today's salad = yes, but that's about it.)

i currently employ 28 slaves

I got 37. I think it's because of the lingerie? Was that supposed to include socks? Because I have MAD pairs of knee socks.

oh wait, didn't realize this is an internet algorithm survey

so how can someone get zero?

by not taking the quiz?

lol apparently one of the things that affected the score the most was my UNDERWEAR

some things never change

free the slaves, go commando.

I've met my first-world guilt quota for this lifetime, thankyew.

Bras are an eternal frustration and a necessity. :(

Victoria's Secret should introduce a fair trade line.

That would be admitting that the rest of their clothes are made by malnourished slave orphans in Bangladesh, so that will never happen.

Damn the thing wanted to know exactly how many t-shirts I owned and how many servings of pine nuts I eat a day and it asked my browser if it could track my location.

Slave-counter or Trojan horse data mining operation on the socially conscious?

20

@Viceroy, they'll be knocking on your door pretty soon asking if they can visit the slaves in your basement ;_;

Ha! There was no basement option, they think I have three bedrooms!

also i think this is a generally unhelpful way to conceptualize slavery/labor/'globalization' cf that other thread

^^

Quite something.

https://www.propublica.org/article/human-traffickers-force-victims-into-cyberscamming?