Christopher Brown
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 20 Jan
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Now, put that on steroids in the wealthiest parts of the world, you know, and imagine legions of soldiers built up out of captive boys taken at the age of seven and eight and given the means of destruction with the most powerful weapons and told, you're the shock troops for whatever, you know, work we're going to do, right?
You know, slavery is extraordinarily malleable.
as a set of practices and institutions.
And even if it over time had become economically less useful.
It would have been useful to the slave owners.
It would have been useful to the slave owners.
And just think about service.
I mean, you know, knowledge economy also goes with the growth of the service economy.
And it's not hard to imagine
service economy positions.
Certainly they were in households, you know, in households, in elite households, all the service was, you know, in the American South, all service was done by slaves, true in Brazilian households.
Bureaucrats.
I mean, the Roman...
empire, many of the positions that we think of today as good government jobs were filled by slaves.
And that's certainly true for a lot of the most powerful West African states in the 19th century.
So, you know, I just think even if it was economically likely to become less useful in some ways, I think it's wishful thinking to believe that
if it had been possible to exploit people in this way legally, then people would not have done so.
Such an interesting question, Rob.
I mean, you and everyone else will have figured out what a skeptic I am about the inevitability of cultural progress.
In some ways, I think that should be a counsel of hope rather than despair, because I think it says that it's really up to us rather than just...
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