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It makes me ponder, do large civilizations always end up with some form of slavery?
Edit: spelling
No. Fortunately slavery is outlawed in every single country on earth now. There's still quite a bit of forced labor and exploitation left, but even that usually does not stoop to the level where people are treated as tradable property, so calling it slavery is a stretch. Humanity has come a long way in that regard.
Its explicitly allowed in the US if you're a prisoner, by the constitution. We have literal bakery-prisons to this day :) isn't it great
Then take a look at comparative incarceration rates around the world, and ask yourself who these numbers are made up by.
It's pretty clear who is picking the cotton even today.
I like how one of the five places that has a higher per capita rate than the US (El Salvador, Cuba, Rwanda, Turkmenistan, American Samoa) is an American territory.
I know. But that still doesn't compare to actual slavery. You can't sell people or subject them to summary execution (yet). It's important to acknowledge how much better than the past today is. Because that shows us how much better than today the future can be if we don't fuck it up.