[cynicalsecurity]

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

[speedgoose]

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

[Schmerika]

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...

[GaryBluto]

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

[robtherobber]

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.

[n4r9]

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

[tgv]

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]

You could compare systems to identify which one produces the greatest profit from the least costs, which the main thing an entrepreneur cares about.

[iso1631]

Not as profitable for robot owners today

[UltraSane]

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

[j16sdiz]

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

[steve1977]

So not much has changed really?

[jatari]

Yep pretty much no difference between 1800s chattle slavery, and having to work in an office.

[ReptileMan]

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

[n4r9]

Is that why slavery was banned?