Clive George wrote:
On 29/04/2015 21:58, Simon Brown wrote:

No. Its still the reason that slavery isn't useful anymore
and always will be, particularly with technology. Even
domestic slaves have no real use now that we get
technology to do what we used to have slaves do.

There's no point in using slaves if it's cheap enough to employ people,
and that's what happens - see eg construction workers in the middle
east, lots of China, etc.

It's not technology which has replaced slaves, it's other forms of
abusive labour.

The UK servant class now works in fast food outlets or on ready meal
production lines.