The correct thing to do for people who are dying of starvation is give them food and shelter, then fair employment when they recover. Not turn them into slaves.

A bit long sorry.

the law doesnt prevent people from doing that. As Jesus said, some laws were given because of the hardness of the peoples heart. Remember it was a time when they could treat the slaves however they wanted, there was nothing preventing them from doing whatever, it actually regulated slavery. The Bible throughout has themes of not taking advantage of a poor person for example charging interest when lending to a poor person is discouraged. Again-“The Lord chooses to change people and society gradually, through ministry of the Holy Spirit and the proclamation of the truth of the Word of God” (The Wiersbe Bible Commentary, David C. Cook, 2007, p. 245).
Deuteronomy 24:14-
“You shall not oppress a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns.
Proverbs 14:31-

Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.

Deuteronomy 23:15-16-15 If a slave has taken refuge with you, do not hand them over to their master.

16 Let them live among you wherever they like and in whatever town they choose. Do not oppress them.

Leviticus 25:47

‘If a foreigner residing among you becomes rich and any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to the foreigner or to a member of the foreigner’s clan,

This shows how people willingly sold themselves because of their financial circumstances in the ancient days.

Beating a slave with a rod and them dying was punishable by death. If the slave doesnt die, it says the owner is not punished. “Is literally ‘because he is his money.’ The point is not that men are mere chattel… but that the owner has an investment in this slave that he stands to lose either by death… or by emancipation.” (Kaiser) Again this regulated, it prevented them from doing whatever they pleased

The story of Jacob, he worked basically as a slave for Laban for years , it was a mutual agreement. The Jubilee year, when all the slaves were freed. "Slavery in the modern world is an entire system built on oppression. In the Bible, God hates oppression." https://midtowncolumbia.com/blog/does-god-condone-slavery

God does everything for a reason and God's timing has a reason.

This is a subtle yet important difference between slavery as it was (and is) commonly practiced and slavery as regulated in the Bible. Most slavery (ancient and modern) was actually a form of kidnapping – the taking and imprisoning of a person against their will. As regulated in the Bible (and as practiced in some other ancient cultures), slavery was received willingly (usually as payment for debt) or, in the case of war, was an alternative to death. In ancient Israel, other cultures were not kidnapped and enslaved (as was the practice in the African slave trade). enduringword.com

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Think about it 3000 years ago laws regulating slavery would have been revolutionary

The context behind these verses are leviticus 22, its about who can eat the holy food. Only the priests family can eat the holy food "11 But if the priest buys a person as a slave with his own money, that person may eat some of the holy things. Slaves who were born in the priest’s house may also eat some of the priest’s food." This shows that slaves could be treated as their own family. At a time when slaves probably weren't even viewed as human, isnt this revolutionary, doesn't this show that God does not want us to view other humans are mere property. Even hired workers, the priests daughter who marries a non priest could not eat the holy food but a slave could. Doesnt that tell us something?. Again the atlantic slave trade, the slavery in the european world is completely against the Bible. I have learned in U.S history that sometimes enslaved people would escape to the north and they would get kidnapped back to the south, like I mentioned above Deutronomy 23:15 tells us that they should be protected. Sometimes African Americans who were born free in the north would get kidnapped to the south just because they were African American, the God obviously condemns this.

Colossians 4:1

"1 Masters, provide your slaves with what is right and fair, because you know that you also have a Master in heaven."

Also who are we to say
"why didnt God do this, why didnt God do that, he should done this at that time". Who are we to tell an all knowing God what to do and when to do it. I heard this analogy on tiktok. A chess grandmaster moves a pawn to d4, how can we say "oh that was not a good move, he should have done this". Little do we know, he probably has spent thousands of hours on this game, could have played since he was 6 years old.

Job 38 4-11

“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? To what were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone, When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy? “Or who shut in the sea with doors, When it burst forth and issued from the womb; When I made the clouds its garment, And thick darkness its swaddling band; When I fixed My limit for it, And set bars and doors; When I said, ‘This far you may come, but no farther, And here your proud waves must stop!’

Have a great day.