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Employers are not always very smart. It took humanity half a millennium to realise slavery is inefficient and ditch it. Go figure.

speedgoose 8mo ago
Slavery is unfortunately still a thing in too many parts of the world.
- Schmerika 8mo ago
  Including the US. And 68% of American adults don't even know it [0]. Not to mention all the foreign slavery in the supply chain, or all the slavery we've directly enabled by 'toppling dictators' who wouldn't give us their shit. 0 - https://www.merkley.senate.gov/is-slavery-still-legal-in-the-us-yes-under-the-13th-amendment-exception/ https://www.merkley.senate.gov/is-slavery-still-legal-in-the...
n4r9 8mo ago
Is that why slavery was banned?
GaryBluto 8mo ago
Slavery wasn't inefficient and was highly profitable for slaveholders.
- robtherobber 8mo ago
  Not contradicting the second part, but I want to emphasise that they are different things. Slavery (and capitalism) can be extremely inefficient and simultaneously wildly profitable.
  - n4r9 8mo ago
    Surely it's meaningless to compare the efficiency of slavery vs other systems, since your set of resources is completely different.
    - tgv 8mo ago
      You could if you look at e.g. the crop yield (ceteris paribus). I don't know why you would, because what sane conclusion could you draw from it?
      - direwolf20 8mo ago
        You could compare systems to identify which one produces the greatest profit from the least costs, which the main thing an entrepreneur cares about.
- UltraSane 8mo ago
  Except the slaveholders entire life revolved around managing slaves and worrying about slave revolts.
  - j16sdiz 8mo ago
    No. If you actually read the history, many slaveholder delegates management works to slaves
    - steve1977 8mo ago
      So not much has changed really?
      - jatari 8mo ago
        Yep pretty much no difference between 1800s chattle slavery, and having to work in an office.
- iso1631 8mo ago
  Not as profitable for robot owners today
ReptileMan 8mo ago
Try 7 or 8 millennia. The Atlantic slave trade was just a rounding error in all the slaves that have ever been.

speedgoose 8mo ago

Slavery is unfortunately still a thing in too many parts of the world.

Schmerika 8mo ago
Including the US. And 68% of American adults don't even know it [0]. Not to mention all the foreign slavery in the supply chain, or all the slavery we've directly enabled by 'toppling dictators' who wouldn't give us their shit. 0 - https://www.merkley.senate.gov/is-slavery-still-legal-in-the-us-yes-under-the-13th-amendment-exception/ https://www.merkley.senate.gov/is-slavery-still-legal-in-the...

n4r9 8mo ago

Is that why slavery was banned?

GaryBluto 8mo ago

Slavery wasn't inefficient and was highly profitable for slaveholders.

robtherobber 8mo ago
Not contradicting the second part, but I want to emphasise that they are different things. Slavery (and capitalism) can be extremely inefficient and simultaneously wildly profitable.
- n4r9 8mo ago
  Surely it's meaningless to compare the efficiency of slavery vs other systems, since your set of resources is completely different.
  - tgv 8mo ago
    You could if you look at e.g. the crop yield (ceteris paribus). I don't know why you would, because what sane conclusion could you draw from it?
    - direwolf20 8mo ago
      You could compare systems to identify which one produces the greatest profit from the least costs, which the main thing an entrepreneur cares about.
UltraSane 8mo ago
Except the slaveholders entire life revolved around managing slaves and worrying about slave revolts.
- j16sdiz 8mo ago
  No. If you actually read the history, many slaveholder delegates management works to slaves
  - steve1977 8mo ago
    So not much has changed really?
    - jatari 8mo ago
      Yep pretty much no difference between 1800s chattle slavery, and having to work in an office.
iso1631 8mo ago
Not as profitable for robot owners today

ReptileMan 8mo ago

Try 7 or 8 millennia. The Atlantic slave trade was just a rounding error in all the slaves that have ever been.