Timsup2nothin
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Technology made slavery obsolete, and that was going to happen no matter what. Machinery serves as a labor multiplier, but produces vulnerabilities. If you try to use it as a multiplier with forced labor you multiply the loss when the labor refuses to work, so a willing underpaid wage slave is superior to a potentially resistant forced slave despite the slightly higher base cost.
Besides, forced labor slaves have food, clothing, and shelter provided, while many wage slaves do not make enough to pay for those items, so they in fact lower labor costs.
Besides, forced labor slaves have food, clothing, and shelter provided, while many wage slaves do not make enough to pay for those items, so they in fact lower labor costs.