Gold Shackles

I was reading today about a mining corporation in La Rinconada, Peru that pays its employees this way:

"...they work for 30 days without payment. On the 31st day they are allowed to take with them as much ore as they can carry on their shoulders.Whether the ore contains any gold or not is a matter of luck."

This might be called payment, but it sounds like slavery to me. "Paying" this way is like allowing someone to eat table scraps after they have worked all day serving others.

Debt and greed bring men into all kinds of desperate circumstances. Once in, it is hard to escape. The best way out is to never get in. But once in, do all that possible to get out, and for the impossible, cry out to God for help.