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[-] pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works 16 points 5 months ago

Child of his time. A working society without slaves wasn't imaginable.

[-] disgrunty@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Also slavery was typically ~~nowhere near as~~ a different sort of brutal in that era. Still brutal and terrible, but not "working people to death and then shipping in more people to work to death" brutal.

Edit: changed my wording because slavery has always been fucking horrible, e.g. eunuchs

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 4 points 5 months ago

Yeah, you got Sundays off and could keep property. Still not a good practice and I don't agree that society wouldn't have been able to function without it (maybe mining)

[-] pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

It's not about if it would've been possible, it's whether people could imagine that it'd be possible.

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