Roman slaves got paid. In imperial Russia the slaves were paid.

American slavery institution is not representative of how this worked for thousands of years. In many societies you couldn’t just randomly kill a slave.

So Are you sure who are the morons?

Please try to intelligently elaborate how it’s slavery when all of the defining characteristics of slavery are removed (involuntary work, physical violence for disobeying, inability to change employers, etc).

What do you think it meant to “buy a slave’s freedom”?

What are you actually disputing?

Are you claiming Roman slaves were not slaves and both the Romans that lived thousands of years ago and modern historians are wrong to call them slaves?

Read the thread. I’m saying people who refer to working in the US today as slavery are diluting the word to something meaningless.

All of the defining characteristics of slavery are not present. The Roman slaves had no autonomy to choose their employer or to just quit.