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

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GaryBluto 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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

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robtherobber 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

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n4r9 5 hours ago | parent [-]

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

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tgv 4 hours ago | parent [-]

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 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You could compare systems to identify which one produces the greatest profit from the least costs, which the main thing an entrepreneur cares about.

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iso1631 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not as profitable for robot owners today

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UltraSane 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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

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j16sdiz 5 hours ago | parent [-]

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

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steve1977 5 hours ago | parent [-]

So not much has changed really?

	▲	jatari 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yep pretty much no difference between 1800s chattle slavery, and having to work in an office.

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speedgoose 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

	▲	Schmerika 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		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...

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n4r9 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Is that why slavery was banned?

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ReptileMan 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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