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>History shows us that slave labor cannot compete with free labor.

History shows us that you can build Pyramids and the Chinese wall with slave labor, probably not affordable with "free labor". But maybe we should also look at "modern slavery" that is "free labor" but without any chance to get another job or get reported to the police.

>it's about forcible slave labor, forced with guns and whips.

Worked incredible well for Belgium, and works incredible well for every warlord in west-Africa...and for us (>bloody< cheap raw-materials for our phones)

I know what you want to say with it, forcing specialized people with whips isn't going to give you good results in the long run, however if you just need their joules it's shockingly effective.




> History shows us

Does it?

    Contrary to popular belief, it wasn’t slaves who built the pyramids. We know this because archaeologists have located the remains of a purpose-built village for the thousands of workers who built the famous Giza pyramids, nearly 4,500 years ago.
https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/were-the-egyptian-pyram...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Egypt#Great...


Yes, maybe the slaves did the less "worthy" jobs:

>Slaves were a constant presence in ancient Egypt. Starting with the Old Kingdom (2613 - 2181 BC), slaves took on different roles. Some became soldiers, others scribes.

https://www.worldatlas.com/ancient-world/were-slaves-used-to...

>Does it?

Yes it does, or do you have another argument against the Chinese wall or Belgium for example? Do you really want to argue against the fact that slaves did (and do) the hardest, most back-breaking jobs?


Slave labor can indeed accomplish things, but it cannot compete with free labor.


>but it cannot compete with free labor.

In terms of quality you are right, in terms of quantity you are wrong (in the past), but in this day and age replacing people (slaves) with machines changes the whole thing again.

So yes, free labor with specialized people and specialized machines and cheap energy is the most competitive.


> or get reported to the police

That's not free labor. It's government coercion, again.

> Worked incredible well for Belgium

???

> works incredible well for every warlord in west-Africa

None of them have been able to compete in the free market.


>That's not free labor. It's government coercion, again.

That was the definition of "modern slaves", HOW you force people to be slaves is really not important.

https://www.antislavery.org/slavery-today/modern-slavery/

>???

Rubber -> Car-tires from

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Free_State

>None of them have been able to compete in the free market.

If you can sell your good's at the cheapest prices you compete very well in the "free market", there is also coltan in Brazil, Australia and China, but DRC sells the cheapest.

https://globalforestcoalition.org/the-dark-side-of-technolog...




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