It's said of the Antebellum South and other slave societies that a society based on slavery was outdated and more inefficient compared to industrialization and a modern economy with wage labor. But really, why wouldn't they have just used the slaves in factories and working for businesses rather than on plantations? The Nazis did this with millions of Eastern European slaves (Ostarbeiters) to fuel the German war machine, and they worked for German companies like Krupp, Thyssen, IG Farben, and Junkers. And Germany's economic output was rather impressive given their constraints and when you consider that the civilian German population was pretty comfortable until the end because Ostarbeiters were being enslaved in the armaments factories and not Germans.It's not only the only example we have of large-scale slavery in industrial society, but the obvious counterexample to saying that modern slavery simply "wouldn't work" or be economically productive. In the Posen speech Himmler regrets killing so many Russians in the first year of the Ostfront because the Nazis realized that it would have been better to use them as slaves for their labor:>In 1941 the Fuehrer attacked Russia. That was, as we can well see now, shortly, -- perhaps 3 to 6 months -- before Stalin prepared to embark on his great penetration into Central and Western Europe. I can give a picture of this first year in a few words. The attacking forces cut their way through. The Russian Army was herded together in great pockets, ground down, taken prisoner. At that time we did not value the mass of humanity as we value it today, as raw material, as labour. What after all, thinking in terms of generations, is not to be regretted, but is now deplorable by reason of the loss of labour, is that the prisoners died in tens and hundreds of thousands of exhaustion and hunger
Soviets also used slave labor to build the White Sea–Baltic Canal and enslaved German scientists to work on their atomic weapons program. Today we also see that the Gulf States which use a sort of quasi-slavery for Indian construction workers are able build massive buildings at a frequency and per capita scale unthinkable in other countries. desu the arguments that slavery just isn't economically efficient in a modern society anyway just don't make sense when we have these real examples of it working with massive success. I think a lot of the reason the ancients could build such impressive buildings for their time was due to slavery, and they couldn't have accomplished such things in a society without it. Renaissance Italy also had slavery, and many of those impressive cathedrals from that era were actually built by slave labor.Slavery is obviously extremely economically productive, and slaves have many economic advantages over wage laborers especially for menial and tedious work. The only arguments you can make against it are the ethical ones.
>>18113920Capitalism was never profitable
>>18113906>>18113920Ethics? Not needed PETA.It's inefficient and doesn't yield good returns after accounting for machinery damage from the low intelligence, and high testosterone and time preference..Could never have worked as is. Cotton production per farm increased after emancipation because they were forced to use human children. Who have a higher IQ and work ethic.You can't even use them effectively as Janitors.Look up McNamara's Morons and the history of the states ASVAB test and your whole reasoning crumbles to dust in the face of reality.
>>18113906>>18113920Sure OP, you'll be the first slave in our glorious National Socialist state
>>18115203are you implying black people aren't human?
>>18113920Productive economy doesnt just mean "big dubai dicks in the sky" Dubai is rich because of unfathomable speculation and foreign investment. What made the whig system of UK so great was how it increased the standard of living of the peasants which then allowed for an economy of consumer, value added goods to be built on top of them.>fucking retards never played victoria 3
>>18116826You also get bonuses like a generally smarter population (less malnutrition) that’s also healthier and therefor more productive. Then there’s the stability dividend. If people are able to support themselves and their families in relative comfort, security, and prosperity they’re way, way less likely to burn everything down in pure rage at those higher up on the sociological totem pole.
>>18116724That's off-topic, go argue that Jackals are Wolves somewhere else.
