[q-big]

> It also encourages slavery.

Indeed, if slavery turned out to be more efficient, it would.

But I think that the claim that slavery is more efficient does not hold, since opressing people binds a lot of ressources; also opressed people tend to do work as minimally as possible.

So it is much more efficient to give people the illusion of freedom instead of enslaving them.

[msmenardi]

And yet, in our system that prioritizes efficiency, we have more slavery than at any point in human history. Something doesn't add up.