I think you need to check your premise. People are not a means of production. The means of production are the things that support a producer's ability to produc

I think you need to check your premise. People are not a means of production. The means of production are the things that support a producer's ability to produce. Owning a human being means owning the fruits of that person's productive labor, which would imply a non-private ownership of the means of that person's productive achievement.