this is how 21st century slavery goes

I'm guessing that bankers and governments have
forgotten the tennets of Debt in the last 5000 years,
as told by David Graeber.

Where debtor prisons had become a thing of the past,
they are now all the rage in the US. Countries are
also being enslaved, and debt is the bait.

Except now we have the Euro , that great leap forward
into the Middle Ages because countries cannot
cancel their debt. The whole country gets enslaved.

Here's a brief explanation from Demetri Kofinas