It is precisely
because of the $213,000 debt that the cadets must accept these rates of pay, this is
debt bondage. New and creative ways will be found to further indebt these cadets throughout their careers to keep them on the hook. Welcome to the first world slave trade.
Originally Posted by Wikipedia
Debt bondage is classically defined as a situation when a person provides a loan to another and uses his or her labor or services to repay the debt; when the value of the work, as reasonably assessed, is not applied towards the liquidation of the debt, the situation becomes one of debt bondage
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Anyone signing on the dotted line has literally mortgaged their lifetimes future labour to the Qantas group from which they will profit handsomely.