Between slavery and import-export trade

Our world can offer people myriad occupations, often a tad tough for simpler types to comprehend. Thus, many job descriptions nowadays might puzzle people of an earlier, somewhat more monochromatic, generation. For people of an earlier India, the plodding government employee used to be the archetype of a safe, sound, sensible “job”. The babuused to be quite the obscure object of desire.

Then again, that could also be called a time when a certain shadiness was implicit in saying one was involved in the “import-export” business, or, often, it was quite the admission of being a goldchain twirling bad ’un. But even the savvier among the newer batches, the ones who can calmly differentiate between an “analyst” and an “ethical hacker” might blanch at what can apparently pass for an occupation in Georgia, US.

A soon-to-be-startled soul, it seems, wanting to sign up for jury duty, in a county in that US state, hit “s” on the list of occupations on the relevant online form, hoping to key in “sales”, and was, er, shaken when he got “slave” as an option. Suitably flipped, the person raised quite a kerfuffle. Some rights activists muttered dark things about this not quite being a joke. The court apparently removed the option quickly, and is investigating. What about having that “import-export” thingummy as an option here?