Please don’t take this question the wrong way, I am just trying to learn and get the opinions of more people on this subject. I find it interesting.

  • jermaphobe@lemmygrad.mlOP
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    1 month ago

    I was referring to slavery as a necessary step during antiquity only, more recent slavery I don’t believe to have been inevitable at all.

      • MarxMadness@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        I can see the argument, but the amount of free labor it takes to maintain a slave system is so high (especially when there isn’t much in the way of technology) that significant slavery at the dawn of agriculture seems unlikely. Seems like that’s something you could only start to pull off with a decent sized city state’s worth of overseer labor, and at that point you’ve already had agriculture for a while.