"The best slave is the one that doesn't realise that's what he is"... [Author Unknown]

In a sense slavery and extortion is one and the same, however when looking for instance within the Modern Day Debt Slavery system the extortion of said slaves is merely hidden from view until those who have eyes can see it.

The illusion behind the modern slavery system in which the majority of Western Civilization's have perpetuated unwittingly to their people, is simply the illusion of choice. Having the choice of the lesser of two evils for instance in a Bi_partisan electoral system is not true freedom of choice.

The modern day construct is that of a ruse of freedom under the illusory of choice in many facets which is why I for one applaud the likes of applications built upon the Blockchain such as Steemit and the Cryptocurrency movement that is steamrolling ahead as this has the potential to restore the ability for majority of us to exert free will when we can explore outside the razor wire fences of the current paradigm with decentralized avenues of choice.