Members of Britain’s richest family get jail terms for exploiting Indian staff at Swiss mansion | The Straits Times
Members of Britain’s richest family get jail terms for exploiting Indian staff at Swiss mansion | The Straits Times
Prosecutors said the Hinduja family paid staff a pittance and gave them little freedom to leave the house. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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Many rich Indians in the west still treat people of lower castes like this. Even the “liberal” ones. Like in Silicon Valley there are Indians from higher castes who try to uphold the caste system and they look down on their Indian colleagues who were born in a lower caste. Even when the person of lower caste has a higher position in the company.
And Switzerland can you also go after the rich Arabs who have Filipino slaves in their mansions in Europe.
almost like the caste system was an artificial social construct invented by the elites to ensure they stay on top
Shocking, right?
I wonder how many people know that the CEO of Google participates in the caste system
Can you elaborate?
My opinion of him hit a negative buffer overflow when I learned he came from McKinsey, I would have been skeptical to learn he wasn't classist
They will try to behave like that with others too, can't let shit like that slide. Got to educate them ;)
can you also go after the rich Arabs who have Filipino slaves in their mansions in Europe
maybe. If the Filipinos are in Switzerland. If there is a assumption of breach of basic human rights we can also go after them if the Filipinos are not in switzerland.
But we would first need proof or at least reasonable suspicion that something is happening so we can start a investigation and get a search warrant.
Proof of suspicion in many jurysdictions is only needed for search warrant. There are things they can do without it. Like request from water company how much water is used when no people supposed to be there.
Okay, but could maybe you just go after the rich? For boo other reason than being rich? Because, in my experience , rich people tend to suck and that seems reason enough to investigate. Please?
Pls Switzerland?
pretty sure that would be a massive breach of the Rechtsstaat(law state? rule-based state? constitutional state?) and even basic human rights.
So no. Selective application of Rights is a really bad idea. That's how you get fascism.
I think that rechtstaat/Rechtsstaat (both the German and Dutch variety of the word) are supposed to be translated into English as "rule of law". But I could be wrong.
fascism is when you ignore rights of rich people
Even the “liberal” ones
Even?
It seems a little reductive/whataboutist to bring that up in the conversation about rich british assholes, though?