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Originally Posted by cmac2012
I can't find it and it's only a line from a movie but it was interesting. Two upper crust Brits were talking about the issue of slave labor and one fellow said approx:
"I think we're had this whole business of slavery all wrong. Instead of owning them, housing them, and feeding them, which is a bit like maintaining a mistress, we should rather treat them like prostitutes, where we pay them for our pleasure and then turn them out to fend for themselves."
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Yes. I think the whole NO canal digging is a good example of the difference in attitude between owning something and renting something. The chattel slave owners weren't willing to risk their property but the wage slave renters were, since they weren't damaging property they owned, only damaging property they rented. It's one of those cases where it becomes clear that labor under capitalism can sometimes be worse than labor under slavery. Better to be a mistress than a prostitute sometimes.