[whimsicalism]

> So? The fact that slavery- and slavery-adjacent relationships were common through a lot of human history doesn't make them acceptable now.

I was only responding to the implicit claim of the grand parent.

FWIW, I think "that's how it always has been" has no impact on the morality of something, so I am inclined to agree with you.

But we don't need to paint a rosy picture of a lost past to critique the status quo.