Please help me for my Hw... Thanks
2006-11-09 11:49:31 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
At the time it may have been efficient for white people, but I certainly don't think it was efficient for the black community. Slavery is NEVER any good for the people who are being in slaved.
2006-11-09 11:56:15 · answer #1 · answered by me 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you look at something so repugnant as slavery strickly from an economic stand point it probabily was fairly efficient in that it kept labor costs low which would in turn raise profits. However the down side would be that your workers would have no insentive to work hard and would have a huge amount of resentment of you as their owner. As played out it also generated a large amount of resentment among other members of your nation. All these things in turn are what caused the War between the states. When the south lost the cheap labor it was not as productive and the north got bigger and richer. Until such time as machines did more of the labor. You see some of the same thing going on with illegals now. They work for a lot less money than the American population and are generating the same kind of resentment among the American population and probabily among the immigrant population as well. Time will tell how that problem plays out.
2016-03-28 00:51:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, slavery was and is still not an efficent labor system. If a person is in bonage to another, that person will in fact , may work at a slower pace. What would be the good of the person to proform a task if there is no postive reward giving for the labor. The ownner of the slave my infact loss out as much as the slave. The ownner of the slave may choice to feed, clothes, give some type of shelter. If the production of goods produced by the slave dose not equl the cost put into the slave, the ownner has a loss in captial. The slave may then be sold off at a lost.
2006-11-09 12:07:17 · answer #3 · answered by magiwol 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In all honesty? Yes. People will never work harder than when they're forced to on pain of torture or death. Slaves were expensive but worth the payment-- you had someone who'd work from dawn until dusk and the only thing you had to provide was bad food and lodging.
Slavery is a fantastic deal for slavemasters, especially if they seperate the slaves to keep them from conversing and plotting their escape. If slavery WEREN'T efficient it wouldn't still be happening today-- look at all the kids who get put into foster homes and are forced to do menial labor for their caretakers, or the women who are lured to other countries with promises of modelling or acting careers and are instead sold into prostitution. It's a tough world, but these things can, do, and will continue to happen.
Edit: If I come off sounding Pro-slavery, forgive me. I tend to approach all touchy moral dillemas with a businessman's common sense.
2006-11-09 11:56:46 · answer #4 · answered by OodlesofNoodles 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, it worked better than immigration here, they didn't have to get paid. What would you think? I mean, you're getting all of your work done for free, well you do have to feed them.
What kind of hw assignment is going to ask about the efficiency of slavery? The answer is obviously yes, and most schools aren't going to want to teach that there was anything good about slavery
2006-11-09 11:56:17 · answer #5 · answered by ur a Dee Dee Dee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, and here's why.
1) It was morally wrong.
2) A war was fought over it and we lost many lives, which cannot be measured in dollars.
3)There are people like me, whose family wasn't even here in the U.S at the time, who have to deal constantly with the accusation of owning people as chattel when we have done no such thing. Hypothetically speaking, I sure don't want to be responsible for any reparations due when my family wasn't even in the country. If you think that slave labor is a good idea, eventually it will catch up to you, and it won't be so cheap anymore.
2006-11-09 12:15:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not as efficient as the monthly credit card bills... LOL
2006-11-09 11:53:00 · answer #7 · answered by KnowhereMan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was nothing, absolutely nothing positive about slavery.
2006-11-09 11:52:04 · answer #8 · answered by Fish <>< 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It was very profitable, but it wasn't ethical. Would you like to have been a slave? I think not.
2006-11-09 13:08:29 · answer #9 · answered by Bu Tran 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes extremely it is the same as the mexicans illegally here now working for small wages
2006-11-09 11:52:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋