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Societies with slavery have such low labor costs that it doesn’t really matter, and, furthermore, slavery removes a lot of the incentives behind productivity improvements. The alternative to a $4/hr slave cook is usually a $5/hr master chef.
You can speculate all you want(and the motte has a fetish for low labor costs), but in general more economically optimized societies aren’t eager to adopt slavery. The gulf states and apartheid South Africa were not models of economic efficiency, and that’s probably the closest thing to slavery in the industrialized world.
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