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> Once an economic replacement for slavery and/or indentured servitude is available, these practices tend to disappear. Slavery is rampant in the world now. Qu
by eyelidlessness 4y ago
> Once an economic replacement for slavery and/or indentured servitude is available, these practices tend to disappear.
Slavery is rampant in the world now. Quite a lot of it in service of the kinds of automation and productivity you describe, but in parts of the world where these discussions aren’t so casual. Slavery hasn’t been obsoleted, it’s been outsourced.