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Man Locked Inside Garden Shed for 40 Years (ft. Alex Acosta)

#blacksesame#servant#slavery#servants#auntie
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0:00 [Music] so there's this man who was a locked inside of a freezing and filthy uk garden shed for 40 years and kept as a slave what wow like what did they do like let them out to just ████ work on the garden and then they put them back in so at most he did jobs like painting slating and tarmacking for as little as about 10 pounds a day ████ but he was literally in a six shed with no lights or heating for 40 years but why pay him if he's late he's getting paid is he just balling now what does he spend it on yeah this is a weird time to hope for this but please tell me he's mentally disabled in some way uh why would you want to hope for that because that's the people like you know they get taken advantage of in that way

0:50 because if he's not then it's like holy ████ but then if he is then it's like oh that's why they were able to like can you only do that to people they think they're living this great life but they're really just like like oh like yeah but if they think they're living a great life and maybe but you know what it usually is it's usually like um migrants like they bring people over from different countries and they have a different standard of living so then they don't know that like this might be normal like where they're from but then this this is just like it's better than the ████ grass hut that they lived in wait are you saying that example as if like if someone is ugly as ████ but they're blind then it's okay but they can't see it is that what you're saying no that's physically disabled bart man you can still technically feel how ugly you are oh i don't know that like that contour like it doesn't matter because the other thing right like it's

1:40 like like you you're so ████ ugly but you said you can't see doesn't really matter i don't know try to understand that one theory that's 130 that we're just gonna circulate just one more example just try one more time there's another one i never heard i hope they're disabled you know what are you saying like they have a wheelchair but it's made of gold so no like if they have a i don't know if uh it's like the thing that they need to feel the pain they don't have it ignorance is bliss basically yeah yeah yeah right it's like that right i don't know where they are yeah it'll be weird yeah like if someone ████ up your hair your hair cut but if you don't have hands you can't even feel it and then you're like i guess it's cool if someone ████ up your haircut that's how i know if i got a good haircut is i feel it all right you could feel oh i'm

2:31 like oh yeah that's tight this angle right here is straight like that's a tight fade but if you don't even got hands you're like i think it's a tight fade that's true or if like they got covered but they die so they can't smell or taste anything anyway doesn't it jokes hey editor can we cut that part out all right so this dude named peter swales was initially charged alongside his 80 year old father also named peter swells with modern slavery offenses but the older man had died last year shortly before standing trial both men had denied the charges including conspiring to arrange or facilitate the travel of an individual between 2015 and 2019 with a view to him being exploited but now peter swells junior had pleaded guilty to the offense at carlisle crown

3:21 court and awaits sentence the case was described as harrowing by a senior investigator who said the victim would be traumatized for the rest of his life how did they trap this dude in 40 years i have a question what were what was the chores that he did or the work that he did that he was contracted to do for ten dollars painting tarmacking uh how much painting did someone say 40 years worth his maybe at a contracting company and then they use it but yeah i think that's a that's an interesting question it's like how do you keep a guy like that in a modern town trapped in a shed that's why i was thinking that there's like a mental incapacitation something there's something that we're uh yeah i don't know like in human trafficking right like if it's not

4:11 if it's usually it's it's tied with the sex trade but if it's not it's a labor trade so like um in and it sucks because usually it's the the community exploiting the their own people but like what ends up happening is like let's say you you get recruits from a poor country and then they just go i want to go to america and work but they're uneducated they don't know how to get the right paperwork or whatever you get a smuggler to basically bring them over and then some people they just basically work illegally and then they go home but then the other people who get trapped into the human trafficking you know slavery thing what ends up happening is like they'll get into like slums or like s█████ situations where they become indentured servants which is basically slavery right and they they could never leave because

5:01 first they don't make enough they might not even know the language to get enough help and then they always get threatened because they're like well i'll ████ throw you into the streets then there's no documents taken too yeah they hold on to their documents if they have legitimate like there's just ████ up so many ways they can take advantage yeah and then like um man it's just tough because sometimes you just don't know if these like undocumented workers are being traded like in that sense yeah and held hostage because some of them just have servants servants in the house too that are like doing free work and they're like well you're here for a better quality of life we're feeding you and that's enough yeah does like um does like chinese or japanese like other cultures have the same thing because uh in filipino culture it's kind of like a dark problem where uh like well-off families that migrate

5:53 to america will bring like a auntie but she's not actually blood it's really just like a servant and they just do nothing but like housework and they're they're barely getting paid anything they live there but as a kid you grow up thinking it's your actual aunt and then eventually you find out it's enough are they happy though like are they part of the family or no they're just they're always treated lesser they're always very clear so there's a there's a caste system or servant system absolutely it's it's basically just like trying to operate as as you did in the philippines but it would be unacceptable here to do that so then you have to make this fake like veneer that's like an unspoken oh this is your own there's a lot over here because in the european union they have a lot of uh uh class separation right so there's a lot of servants and people that work for these like well to do separation of class yeah

6:43 i mean and it's also just like any any place where there's someone well off like it's just harder to do that in america where you can have a live-in servant you'd have to pay them a fair wage but then for like in the philippines sometimes you'll just take a poor family that has like a daughter that's like oh you know what let me get your daughter as a servant here and we'll give her a place to live i'll guarantee she has like a pretty good life wow and then it's that's like a thing that happens a lot there so when you migrate here and you want to keep that system you have to like put on this fake like oh here's perfect bonus auntie yeah yeah but then that auntie that auntie would still be able to take their you know seemingly lower wages for an american standard but like in terms of like the economic you know financial exchange it's like being able to send that money back to their family back home is a good opportunity compared to what they were doing anyway as a house servant in the philippines you know what i'm saying so i think japanese people

7:34 are too lazy for that because the conversion rate is pretty similar and on top of that like um you know if you go to any japanese restaurant they're only open for lunch and dinner they're like trying to find ways not to work as joe rolls his eyes as he's disgusted i was trying to buy black sesame ice cream yeah ████ two days ago and then i was like okay i went to 168 99 ranch and then i saw nakata market of japan on my men's ████ clothes i bet you because it was like 702 and then close at seven of course okay i know the ones that probably would have the black sesame ice cream they went to the chinese market dude they're like we closed but go ahead you know i did never refuse a sale dude i went to 99 ranch but they didn't have like the legit japanese brands yeah i never had black sesame oil good dude very good my sesame's good do you like nutty flavors like hazelnut and

8:25 stuff yeah it's like that yeah dude you're gonna love it you know what they used to do though like north korean food mainly though yeah basically happens a lot when when people are poor right like um what what used to happen was like so in japan industrialized uh all the farmers a lot of farmers lost work so they would go in mass to like hawaii brazil all those places and then that's how you have these like communities out there of like japanese in hawaii or whatever because they weren't they didn't even make enough to go back or even do anything and then also they would get um i guess this is kind of like slavery but they had picture bribes because the girls who who came from poor families they couldn't um they couldn't find a husband so then these immigrants that went to like america hawaii whatever at the time hawaii wasn't a part of america

9:15 they would save up money and then it would like it would be like old school instagram where they would send pictures and then they would send pictures back and then they would arrange the marriage ████ get catfished in both ways you know and then they would get matched up and then they the girls can't go back and then they're like well ████ i thought you were like a rich american dude and then they're like i have to ████ work in the fields and you're just a peasant too and then so that kind of ████ went down yeah picture brides yeah but like nowadays i think it with wealth it'll change countries you know so like when if the philippines have a bigger middle class they're probably not going to have to deal with that kind of slavery yeah yeah that's a very weird type yeah because it doesn't feel wrong at all like when you go up around it you just everyone seems happy and then once you grow up you realize like economically damn this person this auntie never left

10:05 the house like she didn't get to go anywhere or do anything her life was to serve your family absolutely damn yeah that's crazy absolutely yeah it's weird [Music] you

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