And every society that had slavery had peasant uprisings, elite civil wars, demographic decline, and social collapse as a direct result of said slavery.
Humans are addicted to power because the power to protect is also the power to destroy: the only defense against a group that wishes to weild power to rob you is to amass the power to tell them no.
Hence why every ancient state was erected to keep out the nomads and barbarians, as a form of collective organization to maintain what was an extension of group property and free association rights.
And just like with those past systems, when the government they erected to keep out the invaders became too oppressive, eventually they just opened the gates to the invaders like Babylon did to allow the invaders to remove their government for them.
You completely red-herring-ed my point.
Josephus
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2026-10-05 22:12:40 UTC
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