slavery is a drag for any economy, slaves dont generate taxes, dont upskill themselves and dont build wealth. profits generated from their labour is directed to

slavery is a drag for any economy, slaves dont generate taxes, dont upskill themselves and dont build wealth. profits generated from their labour is directed towards a owner class that usually is against any technological progress than can undermine their wealth model. otherwise slaves are a security risk and need always to be controlled , wasting additional money on security (tangentially: now china spends more in internal security than in the military) and cant deployed on war and need duuring instable timese to be controlled more diverting meeded resources. basically slaves fuel a low skilled economy controlled by reactionary oligarchs that isnt competitive in the "game of nations", a reason why russia has been underdeveloped for most of its history and thats why most of african kingdoms couldnt modernize effectively [0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wim0yAkEnOQ&ab_channel=Kraut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wim0yAkEnOQ&ab_channel=Kraut