[cynicalsecurity]

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

[speedgoose]

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

[Schmerika]

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...

[GaryBluto]

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

[robtherobber]

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.

[iso1631]

Not as profitable for robot owners today

[UltraSane]

Except the slaveholders entire life revolved around managing slaves and worrying about slave revolts.

[ReptileMan]

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

[n4r9]

Is that why slavery was banned?