Slavery

Your bank accounts at 0. $45,000 in debt, plus monthly living expenses. No job, no friends, no family. You realize this is the end. You can't support yourself anymore. You can beg on the streets, live out of homeless shelters, and be miserable. Or you can become a .

Under government law, any citizen can give up all rights and become a . Their debt is forgiven, and they become the property of someone else for 10 years. The only choice you get is picking your new owner. Some people got lucky and chose nice masters/mistresses. They were treated kindly, and freed after 10 years. Others though were not so lucky. Their owners were cruel and humiliated and degraded their slaves. Some slaves didn't survive the 10 years. Some may have survived, but they were still never heard from again.

It was a big gamble, but the only clear path that might offer you a chance. Time to take the plunge. Find an owner. But where to go?