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GaryBluto | 2 days ago

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

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robtherobber|2 days 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|2 days ago

Surely it's meaningless to compare the efficiency of slavery vs other systems, since your set of resources is completely different.

iso1631|2 days ago

Not as profitable for robot owners today

UltraSane|2 days ago

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

j16sdiz|2 days ago

No. If you actually read the history, many slaveholder delegates management works to slaves