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Not because it's monotone and concrete, but because of what it symbolizes: a monster that feeds off the rest of the country, where citizens are soldiers and slaves.
It also tells us that we're not slaves to GDP.
Slaves attend to their every need if the diners, through gestures, demand more food and wine.
The girls step into litters carried by some burly slaves.
Carried high on the shoulders of these slaves, the girls look out through the curtains to see the crowded streets below them.
All the slaves are being gathered together in the atrium and await the arrival of their master.
He will not hit his children, but like many other Romans, he believes that slaves have to be punished.
A hush comes over the anxious slaves.
The slaves, young and old, male and female, await the return of their owner.
When he returns, he may exact vengeance, ensuring his power over the slaves is maintained through violence and terror, to which any slave could be subjected.
Women, migrants and, of course, the slaves.
Clearly, if this is right, we must reunite the political and economic spheres and better do it with a demos being in control, like in ancient Athens except without the slaves or the exclusion of women and migrants.
The impact it would leave affected not only these slaves and their descendants, but the economies and histories of large parts of the world.
Some slaves were indentured servants, with a limited term and the chance to buy one's freedom.
In some societies, slaves could be part of a master's family, own land, and even rise to positions of power.
But when white captains came offering manufactured goods, weapons, and rum for slaves, African kings and merchants had little reason to hesitate.
Slavery replaced other criminal sentences, and capturing slaves became a motivation for war, rather than its result.
To defend themselves from slave raids, neighboring kingdoms needed European firearms, which they also bought with slaves.
As for the slaves themselves, they faced unimaginable brutality.
Not only did the continent lose tens of millions of its able-bodied population, but because most of the slaves taken were men, the long-term demographic effect was even greater.
So they claimed that Africans were biologically inferior and destined to be slaves, making great efforts to justify this theory.
Thus, slavery in Europe and the Americas acquired a racial basis, making it impossible for slaves and their future descendants to attain equal status in society.
Chroniclers describe an entourage of tens of thousands of soldiers, civilians, and slaves, 500 heralds bearing gold staffs and dressed in fine silks, and many camels and horses bearing an abundance of gold bars.
Now, instead of African slaves being shipped to South American cocoa plantations, cocoa production itself would shift to West Africa with Cote d'Ivoire providing two-fifths of the world's cocoa as of 2015.
Well, we're being sold as slaves.
Will we all become slaves to algorithms and utility functions?
So if we can program genes, if we are not just the slaves of the history of our genes, that they could be programmed, can we deprogram them?
In the ninth century you could find it in the brothels of Persia, and in the thirteenth, in Spain, from where, five centuries later, it would cross over to America with the African slaves.
They were born slaves but they wouldn't die slaves.
In ancient Greece, when anyone from slaves to soldiers, poets and politicians, needed to make a big decision on life's most important questions, like, "Should I get married?" or "Should we embark on this voyage?"
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