AinOhdMilvado:
The descent into inhumanity is one of the largest K’lallos of the Tochacha.
Wolf: ending up selling yourself on a flooded slave market is, as Rashi points out, saying that they will not even want you for work, so you will be killed right away.
As opposed to the Holocaust, where many who lived did so in “work” camps, as they wanted some of the Jews’ output.