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GaryBluto
4mo ago
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Slavery
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inefficient and was highly profitable for slaveholders.
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robtherobber
4mo ago
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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
4mo ago
Surely it's meaningless to compare the efficiency of slavery vs other systems, since your set of resources is completely different.
tgv
4mo 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?
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UltraSane
4mo ago
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Except the slaveholders entire life revolved around managing slaves and worrying about slave revolts.
j16sdiz
4mo ago
No. If you actually read the history, many slaveholder delegates management works to slaves
steve1977
4mo ago
So not much has changed really?
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iso1631
4mo ago
Not as profitable for robot owners today
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