| ▲ | GaryBluto 5 hours ago |
| 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. | | |
| ▲ | 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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