"Clive George" wrote in message
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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.

I restricted my comments to the first world in the bits you snipped.

It is always going to cost more to employ people
than to use slaves, because those you employ
end up with more than just food and lodging.

It's not technology which has replaced slaves,

It was in the first world, particularly with agriculture and house slaves.

it's other forms of
abusive labour.

Not in the first world.