Slaves, Servants and Capitalism
What's the benefit? What's the cost?
Here I will explore the difference between slaves and servants. I will reason the morality, the social cost/benefit, and the economic cost/benefit of each. All within a capitalistic frame.
What is Capitalism?
Many ignorant people today believe that capitalism is big fish eating little fish (big business eating all the people). This misconception and lack of understanding breeds hatred for capitalism, when truly, capitalism is the natural ebb and flow of energy in a population. It is a free market. In a free market, there are no regulations placed upon businesses, which means that any enterprising individual or group of individuals can operate a business of any kind, and their success or failure is 100% reliant on the response they get from the consumer, the population. If they are disliked, they will fail. If they are popular they might succeed hugely. Government does not decide their level of success. It is also the most efficient way to secure the rights of the individual compared to any other system of human organization, excluding perhaps anarchy, though that is not really an organized body, but rather the fullest extent of capitalist aspiration, in a world of capable emotional intelligence.
Here is a great article on why it is important to properly define capitalism, mostly relating to the fact that critics attack capitalism based on ignorance of what it truly is, rather by what it appears to be in our current world. Here is a piece from Ludwig von Mises on defining capitalism. Mises describes the world before and after the advent of capitalism, where the greatest transformation in the wellbeing and access of the common man was made possible. Even in the crony capitalism that is capitalism's history so far, we have made more progress in enhancing the lives of all people through access, than any other time known us as a species.
Today, we do not live in a capitalism. I have never heard of the existence of a true capitalism any time in history. I have only ever heard of governments controlling markets to varying degrees and in varying ways. The USA is lauded, and criticized, for being capitalismstic example for the world. But the USA is not, and never was, a capitalism. It is a plutocracy, a kleptocracy, a corporatocracy. It regulates small businesses and individuals so that it is extremely difficult to succeed, while providing subsidies and guarantees and partnerships in defense contracts and other domestic contracts to the largest businesses that are funded by families “in the club” to further the agendas of the ever widening globalist cabal. Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and on and on. They are given the government guarantee of success and the government goes to work suppressing their competition, unless the governemnt works with the competitor as well. This is not capitalism.
In a true capitalism it is the businesses that compete for the attention amd investment of the consumer. Monopolies can still form in a capitalism, but it is significantly more difficult than in a plutocracy, where monopoly is guaranteed. In the free market, a business can grow to be very large, but by the very nature of that, people will begin to replicate that business and create unique benefits for consumers to compete with the successful business. Thus, it is that the market will always shift, that monopolies could only hold out for short periods even if they do form, and businesses will always compete by created benefits for the consumer. This is the key component of capitalism. That it is for the consumers benefit. The individuals benefit.
The individual who has a choice between 20 restaurants, all competing for their business, will be able to choose the business that offers the lowest price for the best product, or that fits some other goal of the consumer. Instead of this, we have subtle and gross manipulations of the free market, not the least being taxation. Instead of competition of businesses, we have the individual, the consumer, fighting to survive while titanic monopolies like Blackrock and Vanguard set prices across the market, eliminating competition. Just look at gas prices. They are 1000's of times what the true value is. There is more petroleum on this planet than any other liquid besides water. Four students at the University of Minnesota developed an engine that could operate at 30 miles an hour for 30,000 miles on one gallon of regular gas. You put these two facts together, and we are talking about a market rate that has been forced upon us by profiteering monopolists, Plutocrats and globalists. The same ones Alexander del Mar warned of back in the late 1800's.
Look at the price of water, or electricity, or of our currency itself. The value of our paper medium of exchange. It is fiat and fake and worthless, except that the population gives it value and worth by accepting it and using it. What would happen if individual banks printed their own money, and the Federal Reserve had to compete with those banks that offered real money. That is, money that was backed up by real and tangible things. That money could be backed by precious metals like gold or silver. It could be backed up by stock in some valued product like grain stores. It could be made of gold like Goldbacks. It could be a timebank. Whatever it is, it now is competitive, providing the people with choice. If the people choose to engage with the federal reserve notes (fiat) still, it would be because they are providing some unique benfot thay others are not. But, they would likely choose the money that provides the greatest value against the market of goods and services available to them. All the sudden, the banks are competing to provide that to as many people as possible. They are competing to provide the most beneficial product for the consumer, while still being a profitable business.
Capitalism is the filterless expression of the will of the people and the will of individuals. It is the unregulated, unmanipulated, and less predictable marketplace. In that setting, I would like to discuss what slaves and servants look like.
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What is Slavery? What is a Servant?
Firstly, lets discuss slavery for a little bit. Slavery is ubiquitous across the world and throughout human history. There is no region of the world that has been free of slavery its entire history of human occupation.
Slavery dates back to prehistoric times and was apparently modeled on the domestication of animals. From the earliest periods of recorded history, slavery was found in the world's most "advanced" regions. The earliest civilizations--along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Mesopotamia, the Nile in Egypt, the Indus Valley of India, and China's Yangtze River Valley--had slavery. The earliest known system of laws, the Hammurabi Code, recognized slavery. But the percentage of slaves in these early civilizations was small, in part because male war captives were typically killed, while women were enslaved as field laborers or concubines.
Only a handful of societies made slavery the dominant labor force. The first true slave society in history emerged in ancient Greece between the 6th and 4th centuries. In Athens during the classical period, a third to a half of the population consisted of slaves. Rome would become even more dependent on slavery. It is not an accident that our modern ideas of freedom and democracy emerged in a slave society. Most early societies lacked a word for freedom; but large-scale slavery in classical Greece and Rome made these people more aware of the distinctive nature of freedom. Slavery never disappeared from medieval Europe. While slavery declined in northwestern Europe, it persisted in Sicily, southern Italy, Russia, southern France, Spain, and North Africa. Most of these slaves were "white," coming from areas in Eastern Europe or near the Black Sea.
When Europeans began to colonize the New World at the end of the 15th century, they were well aware of the institution of slavery. As early as 1300, Europeans were using black and Russian slaves to raise sugar on Italian plantations. During the 1400s, decades before Columbus's "discovery" of the New World, Europeans exploited African labor on slave plantations built on sugar producing islands off the coast of West Africa.
“In effect, the basis of slavery was contractual, a penalty imposed because a military or financial failure to maintain one’s freedom. The manumission laws on both sides of the Atlantic gave legal status to this moral outlook by enabling owners to return slaves to their naturally free state once the slave expiated the failure, wither by paying off the debt or securing the owners forgiveness. Since all British colonies in North America began adhering to this concept of slavery as a mixture of servitude and freedom, there was initially little to distinguish between slaves and indentured servants.”
Owning the Earth by Andro Linklater, 2013
The incredible sadism that is often remembered in regard to African American slavery existed between the late 1600’s up until the end of the Civil War. The transition to harsh treatment was facilitated by the change in the type of property a slave was. Rather than real estate, the laws of the south especially began to identify slaves as chattel and unmixed property, meaning slave owners had absolute rights to their slaves, to do with as they pleased.
Here an interesting short document with myths/facts section on African Slavery.
Native Americans weren’t above slavery either. See this article, and check this and this out for a actually pretty decent Wikipedia entries. Many north American tribes participated in slavery, before and after European settlement.
“The Five Civilized Tribes were deeply committed to slavery, established their own racialized black codes, immediately reestablished slavery when they arrived in Indian territory, rebuilt their nations with slave labor, crushed slave rebellions, and enthusiastically sided with the Confederacy in the Civil War.”
Slavery was not new in the world when the Portuguese built their first fort in west Africa. From the Roman’s to the English, the Chinese to the Aztec, the Norse to the Persians. All had slaves. In the 1860's, the world saw something happen that was new. Slaves were freed in America en masse, and serfs (slaves) were freed in Russia en masse, both under popular moral ideals, even though monopolist economics were really behind it. Slavery is an ancient practice that all have in their history that are alive today in one fashion or another. Today, the population of the world is yet still enslaved, albeit a different form of slavery. Rather than Chattel slavery or war prisoner slavery, or other forms of physical bondage, we live in debt slavery.
Debt slavery consists of the creation of a debt owed and a mandated duty to repay the debt under threat of violence. Violence can take the form of one of the 5 forms of crime; murder, assault, rape, theft or trespass.
A highly indebted citizen is a compliant servile citizen. Just think of the experience that we had during the Covid years. Why did Covid doctors so readily give in to pressure coming from the government?
Because the answer is very briefly that they could not have survived three months without the money coming from the system because they were all indebted to the Hilt. So they needed the money to be forthcoming, so they gave in. Debt makes compliance. Same thing for bank customers, the same thing for the Canadian truck drivers, the same thing for internet providers, and so on.
It's really the debt economy that turns us into slaves of the state.
https://mises.org/power-market/how-debt-economy-turns-us-slaves-state
Slavery does not lead to prosperity of the population as a whole as you can read about more here. instead it creates a stagnant rotating economy. In all ways, slavery is an impediment to growth, and is, as it always has been, a control apparatus of the most powerful people in a society. Debt slavery is indentured servitude. This is not equivalent to servants.
A servant is one who willfully and voluntarily chooses to engage in service for an agreed upon benefit or reward for that service. It is an employment. It does not involve debt or masters or slaves.
A Servant is a butler, a maid, a governess, a housekeeper, a tutor, a groundskeeper, or chef, or any other number of positions a person might employ another to care after their personal needs. Throughout history, there has been an understanding that there are different skills and talents and roles for different people within society.
The appearance of wealth in the USA shows up in our modern level of accessibility comfort. We can easily acquire televisions and cars. Refrigerators keep our food fresh for a long time. Roads are maintained (sometimes) without our thinking about it. There are so many comforts available that our great grandparents and their parents never knew. Our ability to access the ever increasing fictions on the internet and over AI and the illusions of media make us believe that we are abundant and successful enough to not be overly concerned about the state of affairs we are in. The middle class and even most of the lower class live in more comfort than the kings of a century ago.
In reality, the middle class has disappeared as the dollar has lost its real power, its purchasing power and the cost of living has gone through the ceiling. The middle class is now only a figment of imagination, surviving on the credit that their owners have allowed them to have. We cannot access the same real quality of success in the middle class relative to prior more abundant economic times. Much of the roles of servants have been relegated to the domain of monopolies providing remote or mass services. For example, federal schools have taken the place of local Sunday school and tutors and governesses. The dynamics that servants offer has been removed from the society, long before the industrial revolution even. I see this as a sign of economic distress, rather than decentralized free market benefits.
For those who would claim the idea of promoting servant roles is classist or racist or sexist or demeaning or some other stupidity… I am a minimalist living on a bus in the desert with no income to speak of and no interest other than exposing fallacies in the world, uplifting the spiritual essence of the world and promoting solutions to problems. I never mentioned, nor would I, that servants would be of one race, sex, or other classification. My thought is that it would be a great opportunity for people of all ages, sexes, colors, creeds and whatever else to have access to both as employers to benefit their household and family and community and as employees who have no other skills or are just entering the workforce or have a desire to do this work professionally. I see nothing demeaning in being of service. And seeing as those who are likely to think that the idea is demeaning are dumbass woke toddlers, I’ll just remind you that servant work is better than having government give you everything. What it gives it can take away. What it gives requires a price too high to bear. Better to work for yourself. Better to serve voluntarily.
Getting to the Point
Where slavery has been used, economic benefits were lost that could have been accessed by the whole population. Despite its moral component, slavery was inefficient, as it created a dependent class, rather than one that could access free markets and apply itself to enhancing the market by creating greater competition in business and creating a greater supply of consumers with the means to purchase from businesses.
Servants on the other hand create several benefits in a free market. I want to make the point here, that I am speaking of live-in servants of a household or an individual predomonantly.
Firstly, a servant “class” provides an entry level position for those just entering the marketplace without forcing them to pay for loving expenses. For example, a live in housekeeper/maid/nanny/butler is given a room, meals, a dollar amount for operating expenses to do their job, and a paycheck. By not having to consider the extra expenses, they can choose to save or invest their earnings and eventually purchase their own homes with their own servants or do otherwise as they please. Long-term servants might choose to remain in that role their whole life, becoming part of the household as much any family.
If a 14 year old boy chose to be a live-in cooks apprentice, helping to maintain the kitchen, cook meals, and provide other services to the household perhaps, and made $25 per day, then $50 per day after 18. If he worked 300 days per year, for 10 years, by the time he was 24 years old, he could have saved $120,000 and then gone on to start his own business or buy his first house. Even if he spent half of that by the time he was 24, he would be far better off than the vast majority of 24 year olds in the country today. Even of he only made $200 a month, he would likely still profit from the situation.
Secondly, the master-apprentice model has been lost in this world in large part, and eradicated in the USA. An apprentice is one who lives with and works to learn the craft of a master craftsman. Not only do they learn the craft, but in repayment for room and board and meals, they often act as a servant of the household, maintaining cleanliness, running errands, and doing other chores that free the master to focus on other things. This is just another form in witch servantshprocide economic benefit to society. After a decade of learning with a master, that apprentice might choose to open their own business, and not having had to concern themselves with earning money to pay for their survival needsand likely earning money as they became more independently capable at the craft, they would enter into the marketplace with skills and a certain amount of starting capital.
Thirdly, servants almost nullify the arguments around immigration, excluding security concerns around criminals entering the country. Unskilled immigrants would now have a place to enter into the marketplace without the need to undergo humiliating and ridiculous programs and standing in lines or accepting substandard arrangements. Now they could become live-in maids, butlers, drivers, apprentices, cooks, groundskeepers, etc. They would be free of the economic burdens facing them for survival, and would be offering a needed service to those that employed them. Hiring would not be mandated by government in a free market, so only those who were sought after would be hired. All the sudden, Americans would be happy to have immigrants, because it opened them up to seeking their joy in their work instead of grinding away at unfulfilled employment just to get by.
Fourthly, unemployment and homelessness would disappear overnight. Even if there was only the offer of room and board and meals, this would appeal to very many people over the alternative of homelessness, shelters, or living out of their vehicles. Now, everyone would have the option to enter into service to support a home, and have a safe, warm place to live and food to eat. These people would work for this. As they got their feet under them again, they might choose to seek employment and increase.
Fifthly, the psychological wellbeing of the society would be enhanced. Greater trust, communal arrangements that bring connectedness, and removal of the destitute class. Rather than scarcity and apathy ruling the social sphere, now it would be circles of abundance. The lowest earners able to serve the middle class, and thus rise themselves into it. The problems of today are that scarcity is manufactured and the middle class cannot afford anything beyond the necessities and a few extra meaningless comforts creating a cultural renaissance in which servants are notable components would be beneficial in all ways.
In a major elaboration of Ricardo’s Law of Comparative Advantage, Mises showed that there is room for all in the competition of capitalism, even those of the most modest abilities. Such people need only concentrate on the areas in which their tel-ative productive inferiority is least. For example, an individual capable of being no more than a janitor does not have to fear the competition of the rest of society, almost all of whose members could be better janitors than he, if that is what they chose to be. Because however much better janitors other people might make, their advantage in other lines is even greater. And so long as the person of limited ability is willing to work for less as a janitor than other people can earn in other lines, he has nothing to worry about from their competition. He, in fact, outcompetes them for a job of janitor by being willing to accept a lower income than they. Mises showed that a harmony of interests prevails in this case, too. For the existence of the janitor enables more talented people to devote their time to more demanding tasks, while their existence enables him to obtain goods and services that would otherwise be altogether impossible for him to obtain.
In the same vein, a servant can apply themselves for less pay, but recieve great reward over time, by using their current skill levels to provide benefits to private households that have greater talents and earn more from those. The Comparative Advantage allows the proper placement of reward to benefit provided.
While slaves are servants of a master by the application of violence and authority, the free market servant is slave to none and free to change employment at their whim and thus create a competing business model with others in the servant industry.
Servants cannot be employed by a middle class that does not earn enough to support themselves. The average income really would be upwards of a hundred thousand and potentially far more if value was appropriately applied. As long as there is a central bank and highly oppressive and manipulaating government with its boot stomping on the faces of the people, it is unlikely that we will see any correction to the devaluation of the peoples net worth. The value is extracted while they vomit more fake currency (Federal Reserve notes and soon CBDC's) into the real market.
So, is it a pipe dream that we see this aspect of the free market come to life? I hope not. I see it as a great opportunity, but yet we are faced with the tyrannical entities that inhibit our potential. Do what they tell you and sell your soul, or be faced with a life of failure in the market. But hey, even if you do sell your soul and pay those taxes and abide by their regulations, those regulations are deaigned to limit your growth potential and success anyway.
I hope we someday have a free market where people can access the benefits of their skills without interference from parasites. Are you ready for a revolution yet? How much does it take?
Freedom isn’t free. It is won by vigilant defense and maintenance and preparation and decisive action. Recognize the parasite then kill it.
“Don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty! In the 17th Chapter of Saint Luke it says ‘God is within man.’ Not one man but all men.”
Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator
Some say freedom is free,
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Now my time,
It has come.
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Cast off the chains,
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Excellent article. I have been wanting to write something on trying to live free but running into peoples mentality stuck thinking in terms of fiat value. It results in us passing debt around and reestablishing a system we are trying to exit.
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