Breeding slaves vs raiding for slaves
 

Graeber / Wengrow: "Most human beings need a good deal of care and resources and can usually be considered a net economic loss until they are twelve or sometimes fifteen years old. It rarely makes economic sense to breed slaves -- which is why, globally, slaves have so often been the product of military aggression [...] Seen one way, a slave-raider is stealing the years of caring labour another society invested to create a work-capable human being."

> from David Graeber and David Wengrow's Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021)

> tagged with #warfare, #economics, #slavery

> created October 24, 2024 at 9:10:22 AM


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