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Slavery was undeniably "good for society", it made certain societies highly successful. See Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Old Dixie. The problem was that the su
by nine_k 2y ago
Slavery was undeniably "good for society", it made certain societies highly successful. See Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Old Dixie. The problem was that the success was very unevenly distributed, and, worse, large swathes of the society lived in a way we currently see as unacceptably bad.
This mostly shows that "society as a whole" is an extremely coarse scale, and should be used with a lot of caution, if at all.
- Qwertious 2y agoNot only that, ancient Rome/Greece existed in a period where every agricultural society had some level of slavery, it was basically universal - although some places far more than others. For instance, Rome was ~10% slaves, Athens was ~20% slaves, and Sparta was ~95% slaves. Sparta was the worst.[1] [1] https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-i-spartan-school/ https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-p...