In Brazil would be even cheaper, could work for bananas =] maybe DK were programmed here.

And Wii were based on the slaves movements and the punishment?

First of all if slavery would be allowed again then there is one known rule a slave on the loose has to be killed if someone sees him. And slaves would be marked. In the past they were mostly black so black = slave nowadays if you have multi cultural slaves like it would be nowadays since the society isnt splitted by races but by poor and rich. There would be somekind of mark and police would watch out for stolen or lost property. So an unknown slave marked without master would be found by police and brought back to owner or killed by some honest citizens.

Slaves wouldnt dare to run. Where should they go to ? And by the way there is a technique which is used. Let your property make children and if they run you just execute the children or family members or other people they care. Let then have groups and say if one person runs we kill another or the whole group so the other slaves would fear that they get killed if someone runs so they would spy on each other and report every attempt of flight. With todays technology you could implant a tracking device somewhere in the body without the slave knowing were it is.

There are endless possiblities. best working is if they live in permanent fear and only absolute devotion to the master gives alittle hope to lead a partially good life.

There are methodes used in the Gulaks or KZs and by US Farmer which ensure that only a tiny minority of slaves run. And they are for free only thing you need is to be consistent and not allow any exceptions under any circumstances.

Free work is WAY overhyped these days. Slavery is much cheaper yer underrated labor.

I can't figure out whether you people are for or against slavery...some of the comments here repulse me.

Perhaps we should persuase people to voluntarize... it's even cheapier than slavery.

Owwww, wait, some people already had this absurd idea; work for less than food and shelter, prepoterous.

If you adress me: i am against it. I tried to make clear how brutal slavery really is and not comparable to a low paid job thus making it always an economically "interesting" option.

wht? man plz! i hate to brake it to u but we are all slaves! let me brake it down for u in simple terms with a few examples

money, employment, most of mans laws, politic's.

either your a slave by politic's, communism, employment, democracy, or mans law now take ur pick or have them all?

If you provide things like health care, adequate food and shelter, and other things like that I assume slavery is still viable because it's cheaper than hiring someone to do whatever you're having someone else do for free.

That said, if you have slaves why would you care about those above things?  I know I wouldn't.

In the case of the arts, where you have musicians, actors, or other forms of arts, and there is a promise of making it big, plus people are drawn, or feel a need to do it, people will work for free.  Same goes with professional athletes.  Look also at the number of levels created for something like LittleBigPlanet to.  Free concent.

Throw in also here people who seek Internships, to be able to get sufficient experience, to land work.  Businesses use interns.  I have an employment place that wants to try to land myself an internship doing low level data entry work, on the belief maybe it will lead to a job somewhere.  This happens.  Shoot, I have been doing pro-bono work for multiple years now, due to lack of paid work.  If I don't have this, I have a gap in my resume.

It happens.

Not sure if anyone here is in favor of slavery.  If you speak about the Yes Men, and the video, I suggest you do a bit of research on them.  Their story is one how people who don't do proper due dilligence invite them to speak as a representative of the World Trade Organization, and they expose the downside of globalization of trade.

If you question what I wrote, well, I would have to ask if elimination of slavery ALWAYS produces situations better than slavery itself.  If you have an environment where people work for less that what is needed for them to survive, which happens, is that better than a situation of indentured servitude, with maybe government enforced minimum standards on the quality of accomodations.  Like, for the indentured servant, the individual who held the contract of the indentured servant would have to provide minimum health and living accomodations.  Yes, we go into animal cruelty here, but why not have that?  Do we want to have a society where people end up bagging groceries for tips only, and hoping to be able to live?  In Mexico, people bag groceries for tips.  Is that something worthwhile to have? 

Maybe there are economic conditions worse than slavery people can end up going through.