Many years ago I spent hours digging through a bunch of horrible quality audio files on some archival website that had many interviews with actual former slaves. The overwhelming consensus among interviewees was "they didn't treat us too bad." Slavery is not the cartoon we are taught.

Human farming is a mind game. Human livestock won't work or breed well if they believe they are trapped. People generally have to believe they are free & benefiting somehow from any arrangement. But some are stupid enough to demand more taxation in the name of "free housing" or "free healthcare" because they unconsciously want, or have been programmed to be, good livestock.

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