Slavery could not compete with free labor on the free market. It was only the state apparatus that could socialize, subsidize, and expand slavery for the profit of some at the expense of the non-slaveholding population.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @398ja OP 18 Sep
Given the costs involved, most people would likely have opposed slavery if they had had the choice. Can we draw parallels with today's mass migration, which is often promoted as being 'good for the economy'?
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