Slavery isn't profitable, people do it for emotional or ideological reasons, or because they're not competent enough to run a business that has to actually trad

Slavery isn't profitable, people do it for emotional or ideological reasons, or because they're not competent enough to run a business that has to actually trade. This is literally why economics is called "the dismal science". Slaveowners called economists that when the economists told them to stop doing slavery.