Was slavery really necessary for every civilization on earth

>>1610153
No

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>>1610153

Yes.

>>1610153

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>>1610153
Yes, and is still true to this day. Maybe robots can fix it though.

>>1610153
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Yes

Before mechanized farming. You needed a lot of hands in the fields.

Freemen and higher classes of society had better things to do than farming.Unless of course you're the farmer and overseeing the slaves.

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>>1610153
Great pic for demonstrating slavery.

>>1610153
Most feudal societies had some form of slavery or servitude. It seems to develop naturally. But once the feudal order starts to break down, slaves seem to do more harm than good. They drive down the price of labour, thereby discouraging innovative production methods.

>"Who needs harvesting machines? Just buy more slaves LMAO"

>>1610153
No but it's kinda like saying "do you have to think lewd thoughts to get a boner?" which the answer is no, but its much easier using lewd thoughts to do so.

We have no slavery per say but we've managed to push undesirable conditions of work outside of the nation in other parts of the world and engage in unethical/immoral practices outside the nation.

>>1610708
Likewisein many parts of the world the the wages a farmer could give a laborer was less then what the laborer can get working on their own land or doing something else since in many parts of the world land was abundant and the people living there was small as one case. So you had slavery as mechanism to get the labour to work on said land.

>>1610153
FUCK YOU

>>1610153
Sauce

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>>1610708
>which the answer is no
Speak for yourself

>>1610488
Their*

>>1610153

Yes and no. In some ways slavery retarded the advance of "advanced" society like in the Southern United States. There are papers that discuss this in detail but basically slavery cuts the bottom rung of the ladder for poor freemen and the societal benefits you get from the "free" labor basically wash out.

That being said if you're in Bronze age Mesopotamia, slavery was probably a benefit for society. It's an argument you'll hear in Christian apologetics about how Biblical slavery was actually humane and an improvement over simply executing all your enemies.