DON”T BE HIGH MINDED ABOUT SLAVERY. YOUR ANCESTORS DEFINITELY PARTICIPATED. AND YOU STILL DO.
Indentured servitude is/was a contractual form of voluntary slavery, with exit , and indentured servants were a substantial part of the early colonies.
The sex-slave trade in white women was common, and was only finally outlawed in 1910.
THE ECONOMY SHIFTS, THE CONDITIONS REMAIN
All of these forms of slavery were extant from the earliest records in almost every agrarian civilization.
Take your pick:
SERIES: Undomesticated Human Animal > Chattel Slavery(Property) > Slavery(servitude) > Serfdom (partial independence) > Economic Slavery(Wage Labor) > Tax Slavery (Citizen)> Jurisdictional Slavery(Government) > “Cult” slavery(Religion).
Serfdom = Inability to exit taxation.
Slavery=inability to exit, period.*
**HIGH MINDEDNESS**
We take credit for high mindedness, but the truth of the matter is, that s**lavery occurs out of economic necessity**, and the reason it disappeared was the black plague, the early modern agrarian revolution, the early industrial revolution, and late industrial revolutions, that made it economically preferential to have employees and customers rather than slaves.
Rule of historical analysis: **never assume people do things out of good nature**. They do things because it’s feasible and they want to obtain **virtue signals** as means of displaying **conspicuous consumption**.
The human intuitionistic and biological accounting system is just status signals.
(Read Veblen)
You are, as is common, due to ‘suggestion’ (deception) by false dichotomy, falling prey to the wrong question. the question is do you want rule of law resulting in markets, or rule by discretion (command), resulting in the absence of markets.
The answer is, that the contemporary fantasy is that we should maximize our abiity to extract taxation in order to maximize redistsribution. This is good for dysgenic families and individuals. The opposite proosal is to minimize taxation and redistribution, and fund eugenic (meritocratic) families and individuals.
The free riders (the majority) that do not compete in the market but join large organizations whether private, semi-private, or public, and those who ‘talk for a living’ meaning teachers, academics, media, and politicians, can use democracy to extract from eugenic families and productive individuals in order to fund dysgenic families and unproductive, parasitic, and predatory individuals.
https://www.quora.com/Is-socialism-always-authoritarian-Could-capitalism-be-authoritarian-If-so-what-is-an-example-of-authoritarian-capitalism