alt Hacker NewsEmployers are not always very smart. It took humanity half a millennium to realise slavery is inefficient and ditch it. Go figure.
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speedgoose • today at 11:35 AM
Slavery is unfortunately still a thing in too many parts of the world.
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n4r9 • today at 11:36 AM
Is that why slavery was banned?
ReptileMan • today at 12:57 PM
Try 7 or 8 millennia. The Atlantic slave trade was just a rounding error in all the slaves that have ever been.
Slavery wasn't inefficient and was highly profitable for slaveholders.