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Re:Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming in... by scarface_74 on Friday June 20, 2025 @09:37AM (#44327630)
Human worth was literally commoditized and humans were bought and sold until the late 1800’s and legally segregated until the mid 1960’s
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Re:Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming in... by bobxmax on Friday June 20, 2025 @10:44AM (#44328194)
Industrial-scale slavery is a post-agricultural phenomenon and represents a very small percentage of overall human development.

Even such slavery, modern western/catholic chattel-style slavery aside, wasn't entirely transactional in that way. Many Ottoman slaves had better lives than aristocrats, for instance, and had real agency and influence.

Western European/American/Catholic imperialist slavery was somewhat unique in how dehumanizing it was.

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