Message from @Sizeable_lad

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2020-03-09 11:42:43 UTC  

Doesn’t having slaves cause a negative effect on innovation as slave labour is cheap and there will be no drive on inventing labour saving technology.

2020-03-09 11:42:55 UTC  

In this case

2020-03-09 11:42:59 UTC  

There is no such thing as free labour. Unless you have a constantly supply of new slaves you do not pay for who you can expend without feeding or housing, it is not free.

2020-03-09 11:43:01 UTC  

The welfare of slaves

2020-03-09 11:43:04 UTC  

Is a moral concern

2020-03-09 11:43:19 UTC  

The economic standing of the impoverished

2020-03-09 11:43:28 UTC  

Is an economic concern

2020-03-09 11:43:33 UTC  

Its an economic concern. You want your slaves to be fit right?

2020-03-09 11:43:36 UTC  

to work hard

2020-03-09 11:43:41 UTC  

Not necessarily

2020-03-09 11:43:44 UTC  

Yes and no.

2020-03-09 11:43:48 UTC  

Slaves can be made to work hard with a whip

2020-03-09 11:43:49 UTC  

you don't want them to be fit from the goodness of your heart

2020-03-09 11:44:15 UTC  

A slave barely able to get through the day and just about survives is one who can’t rebel after work.

2020-03-09 11:44:55 UTC  

A really fit slave is capable of rebelling.

2020-03-09 11:45:24 UTC  

If i owned slaves i would feed them the bear minimum to survive and would simply coerce them to work through threats of violence, this is the cheapest and most economically efficent. Say your arguement about slave welfare was an economic one then better treated slaves would cost more to own and likely do less work

2020-03-09 11:45:27 UTC  

So are 1000 weak slaves against one master

2020-03-09 11:45:35 UTC  

That isnt the arguement

2020-03-09 11:45:57 UTC  

How will they be likely to do less work?

2020-03-09 11:46:08 UTC  

One master who has 200 overseers with guns.

2020-03-09 11:46:14 UTC  

Better welfare is a byproduct of more sleep

2020-03-09 11:46:20 UTC  

so the fit one has n chance either Slen

2020-03-09 11:46:40 UTC  

Oh they would.

2020-03-09 11:46:41 UTC  

And therefore

2020-03-09 11:46:43 UTC  

Less work

2020-03-09 11:46:56 UTC  

This conversation is totally of the rails

2020-03-09 11:46:57 UTC  

better welfare can be two meals a day instead of one

2020-03-09 11:46:58 UTC  

If all of them were fit they could overwhelm their overseers.

2020-03-09 11:47:07 UTC  

and less sleep

2020-03-09 11:47:26 UTC  

A reminder that this began as a bad exchange of analogies trying to invalidate slens argument against communism

2020-03-09 11:47:37 UTC  

yes

2020-03-09 11:47:40 UTC  

Of course,
The beaten down slaves could try to resist by deliberately working inefficiently

2020-03-09 11:47:50 UTC  

And all this time i have been trying to bring this conversation back to that topic

2020-03-09 11:47:52 UTC  

And I’m still right.

2020-03-09 11:48:20 UTC  

but we haven't even been able to come to an understanding regarding the morality of owning slaves as a positive argument

2020-03-09 11:48:34 UTC  

But now we’re arguing about how effectively a bunch of emaciated slaves would be able to revolt vs a bunch of fit ones

2020-03-09 11:48:50 UTC  

so how then would you want to move towards the communist ideology when the principles of relation and capital is what it's all about

2020-03-09 11:48:53 UTC  

don't you see this?

2020-03-09 11:48:58 UTC  

Slavery is bad. Free people are more productive anyway.

2020-03-09 11:49:07 UTC  

I wouldnt want to move toward communism at all

2020-03-09 11:49:11 UTC  

Communism is imoral