• IninewCrow
      link
      fedilink
      English
      165 days ago

      Until the slaves start facing starvation or hunger, they’ll never revolt.

      • @Lembot_0003@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        English
        255 days ago

        That’s the neat part: starving slaves too often are busy with survival, they have “families to feed”, they have no time for revolutions. But caution is needed, yes. So keep your slaves hungry but not starving and they’ll never revolt.

      • @thebestaquaman@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        265 days ago

        That isn’t the point. The point is that a single heavily armed guard is enough to deter a hundred people from even trying to fight until they are desperate.

        The point is that, even though those hundred people would win a fight, and even if they know it themselves, those hundred people are individuals. Unless they are desperate, none of those individuals are willing to stick their neck out to fight.

        We see this in prisons. We saw this under slavery. We saw this in concentration camps. A few armed people are sufficient to suppress lots of unarmed people. Sometimes the unarmed revolt, and when they do, they often succeed if they are willing to take massive casualties. That doesn’t change the fact that they rarely try to revolt in the first place.

      • @Lembot_0003@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        English
        05 days ago

        It isn’t important. A guard can be non-armed except for a club. Slaves won’t attack. Because they are slaves.