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Re:Are the Persian Gulf city-states slave societies? by Tiktaalik on Saturday January 30, 2021 @02:31PM (#25972146)
The benefits of reduced labour costs are the middle class.

Similarly the middle class benefits from the lower working class wages that come from exploitation of illegal immigrants.

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Re:Are the Persian Gulf city-states slave societies? by lupire on Saturday January 30, 2021 @03:59PM (#25972922)
Well, the upper middle class who have higher tier jobs. Not the working middle class. (In USA everyone is "middle" class, because most are too proud to have class consciousness.)
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