Yes, at one time people owned certain other people called slaves, and many wars were fought, then they had indentures = more wars, now they are called restrict

Yes, at one time people owned certain other people called slaves, and many wars were fought, then they had indentures = more wars, now they are called restrictive covenants = selective slavery - these are being outlawed place by place in a haphazard manner. Workplace evolution is the latest buzz. A form of gig labor is evolving. Instead of work from home, we might get a task pool format = bid for task = race down a hole. This is widespread and is allowing many so-called third world countries to get hard currency by exploiting the fact that a USA worker wants $30/hour for a data task and a smart lady in Nigeria can do this for $3/hour with both people happy at their local hour's wage because they can buy the same breakfast/lunch/dinner/rent for the same number of hours used. We see many of these tech migrants doing this between Thailand and Silicon Valley, and many other places. I think there is a 'great levelling' under way with the migrants in the vanguard. When it is fully levelled, with a robot work force and work from (any home)to (any workplace) has been achieved we will be inching towards a world government - by AI of course, politicians will be happily shed along the way, as they die their inevitable death by uselessness...