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Nah that’s different. For humans it was an effect of might is right. Slavery was there for cheap labor. It still had a cost since you had to feed them. And many times slaves bought them selves out of slavery.

Today you still have slaves as well, they are just called low income workers in third world countries who make the technology we use in the west. Because if a company is earning billions in revenue, paying a worker $10 a day is cheaper than a slave master in roman times feeding them food ;)

And workers today only have the illusion of choice, since the economy is the master today.




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