Here’s the slavery speed run:
Step 1 - Mass layoffs + Tariffs lead to mass homelessness. Step 2 - Criminalize homelessness. Step 3 - Arrest/institutionalize the homeless in for profit prisons. Lend inmates to private corporations for forced labor. Step 4 - Profit.
The “root causes” do need to be tackled its just this identifies the wrong ones; the ones that need to be tackled are capitalism, landlordism and a profit driven economy.