• its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    Before the war it was becoming popular to rent or sell slaves to corporations. They built the railroads and mined coal to their deaths. Slavery wasn’t going to die on its own.

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      24 hours ago

      Slavery is literally “any job that can be done can be forced to be done”

      Quality doesn’t matter, only ends justifying means

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      1 day ago

      Sure it was, what makes you think otherwise? Slaves are inefficient. Actual workers generate more money for their boss. There is a reason slavery is so small today compared to 200 years ago despite the much higher wages.

      • ilillilillilillililli@lemmy.world
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        21 hours ago

        You’re goddamn right your boss would pay you less, if they could get away with it. Free labor is highly efficient for the capital class. There are more slaves today than there were 200 years ago. Literally everything you said is false.