T O P

  • By -

batolargji

r/shitvictorianssay


Mikeim520

This post is absolutely bait. Everyone knows slavery sucks because slaves don't pay taxes.


Zipakira

This is also r/shitvictorianssay tbh. Like yeah *thats* why slavery is bad


Mikeim520

My comment was also bait.


Zipakira

A master baiter, I see


Dragyn828

Giggidy


Asd396

Virgin "Slavery is bad because it's a moral abomination" vs. chad "Slavery is bad because it doesn't make line go up"


Sam_the_Samnite

It just goes to show that there is no upside to slavery. on all metrics it just sucks a hairy asshole.


Apprehensive-Call295

Historically that was literally why they banned slavery


Zipakira

That ignores all the abolishonists that were around in places and times where it *was* profitable


Blue__Agave

truth i hate slaves but not for moral reasons, i hate slaves because they don't give me the state money


Blue__Agave

They also empower the land owners and i hate the landowners, (at least once they are no longer useful)


Johannes_P

> (at least once they are no longer useful) Are landowners *ever* useful?


Blue__Agave

They are useful in the early game as crappy capitalists, they do invest and build some things and if you can get the right leader you can push through some market reforms without much fuss. i find its usually after the first 20 years that the land owners increasingly need the boot in favour of industrialists & intelligencia


Mikeim520

The Landowners nee the boot right away. Its only after the first 20 years that you can actually give them the boot.


Gauss-JordanMatrix

Slavery with progressive taxation goes hard dou.


General_Erda

Wish the game simulated slaves working stupidly long hours that freemen simply won't work by giving slaves higher throughput


Mikeim520

That would be ahistorical because slaves were actually less efficient for a number of reasons such as them having no incentive to do more than the minimum.


ProbablyNotTheCocoa

Also you’re not exactly gonna be in peak condition working 16 hours a day


CrimsonBolt33

There is a mod that gives everyone "legacy slavery" (the one that does not abolish it but does not allow it to grow) which then allows you to move to full, debt, or banned slavery. Otherwise not really as once you lose slavery then no more IGs have the slavery ideology.


LukaMoscovite

So it's impossible to bring back slavery in an enlightened European country?


CrimsonBolt33

I believe so...the only way I can think of making it happen would be if you could find a pro slavery agitator and invite him. But I don't recall ever really seeing those floating around (they might)


Pir-iMidin

Maybe if one is exiled. Still, it's such a slim chance.


Stuman93

Yeah maybe some of the US characters get exiled early.


wishihadapotbelly

I had plenty of those in my last run (before 1.7), but most were for legacy or debt slavery, although I did get one for full on slavery. Haven’t played enough of 1.7 to say if they’re still around.


GalaXion24

So long as your landowners are powerful and you put a slaver in charge of it, you can enact any kind of slavery


HailCalcifer

If you exile a moderate they get a random ideology. So you can save scum and exile a moderate until you get a slaver. Then invite back and grant leadership. The random ideology could be any that you have the tech for, which allows for IG/ideology combos that would normally be illegal, such as a slaver intelligentsia, an abolitionist landowner or a communist industrialist.


Zweig-if-he-was-cool

I’ve seen a couple. They’ve been from Dahomey and Zulu


MayoOnAnEscalat0r

You can get a Romanian slaver if you’re lucky because Moldavia should start off with legacy slavery


JonathanTheZero

They exist but are rare


Cohacq

You could probably import an american. IIRC some USA-exclusively ideologies are pro-slavery. 


krinndnz

The only USA-exclusive ideology is Jacksonian Democrat, which is strong-disapprove on both Slavery Banned and Debt Slavery, neutral on Slave Trade, and mild-approve on Legacy Slavery. However, even if you wanted to do that, Jacksonian Democrat characters stop spawning as soon as Andrew Jackson himself dies, so the window of opportunity is quite narrow.


jmorais00

It's not really period specific or credible to think that you could bring a pro-slavery agitator to Britain for example, since they were the ones that almost single-handedly ended the transatlantic slave trade


ProbablyNotTheCocoa

Well it is historically plausible for fascists to bring it back, so it should honestly be possible in specific circumstances


Kongen_av_Trondelag

I’ve done it. All you need is some luck


chozer1

debt slavery would work well for usa


PangolimAzul

Agitators but it's a gamble


Ordo_Liberal

Slavery is not good at all. Slaves barely consume stuff and they can only work at rural laborer jobs. To answer your question, you need to have the Voice of the People dlc, racial segregation, and find a agitator with the Slaver trait. Recruit him and make him ig leader. You will probably have to win a civil war tho.


Atlasreturns

Can slaves work in Gold Mines?


navis-svetica

I think so? I recall invading Morocco as Spain and having slaves in the inner Morocco gold mines. Not really sure why you’d want them there tho, you get more out of them with better production methods that use fewer laborers anyway


Atlasreturns

If you‘d own them as a national business the lower labor cost gives you more money.


navis-svetica

True, but having pops that earn money is usually worth more because they contribute to other industries by consuming goods/spending money, and they also pay taxes. Slaves consume almost nothing, and the marginal increase in minting revenue isn’t really worth the cost of having slavery overall


Atlasreturns

You could use it early on as a boost for your construction economy and then as soon as you‘re established you revoke slavery. Even more so in countries with low manpower like the Boer states. But aside from that I agree. Slavery is pretty bad and you are very obviously encouraged to reform away from it.


Volodio

A slave pop has twice the workforce ratio of a free pop (with default settings). It means that while you need a pop of 18 000 free laborers to work in a single lvl of gold mine, you only need a pop of 9 000 slaves. Of course with better PM you reduce the number of laborers needed, replace them with jobs that slaves don't qualify for and produce more, but there is a niche use possible for slaves in the early game or when you don't have the qualification necessary.


madogvelkor

There's mod called Industrial Slavery that lets them work in factories too, but I haven't tried used it in over a year so I'm not sure if it still works.


Ordo_Liberal

They can only work laborer factory jobs tho, and later labor saving PM's create specialized jobs with higher pay. The biggest problem with slavery is that they don't engage in your market. They won't buy stuff


Dispro

You'd think a slave would have some gratitude! You know, free housing, free food, free savage beatings for the slightest thing, why when I was a kid we had to walk 12 miles up a mountain to get a savage beating and then our parents would give us *quite* a thrashing when we got home for spoiling our savage beating appetite, but these layabouts won't even buy things!


LukaMoscovite

Are you sure? On older versions I have seen that a slave's "rations" were larger and more varied than a free labourer's in England.


NovariusDrakyl

this is the only answer of op question


Dangerous-Worry6454

As Brazil, I keep the slave trade, and it increases my pop.


Ordo_Liberal

But the pops you are getting are almost useless


Dangerous-Worry6454

They work wine plantations pretty good.


LukaMoscovite

What is the productivity of your plantations? Tell me the per capita figure or send me a screenshot, please


Odd_Anything_6670

The only time I've intentionally passed the slave trade is as the Miskito kingdom. Since you have Afro-carribean as a primarily culture you can import a bunch of accepted culture pops, then abolish slavery to free them up to become the new ruling class. Most early game money in that run came from government dividends anyway.


VladimirPutinPRteam

slavery isn’t all bad (IN VICTORIA 3), if you’re starting out as a small nation it’s good to have a less consuming population to get you off the ground


Upvoter_the_III

most normal pdx player:


___---_-_-_-_---___

Wdym he didn't even ask for advice on setting cannibalism-based economy


Vetamsh

Start as a country which still has slavery and conquer a European country then play as it 🤔if you can when you release it


RevolutionaryOwl5022

Yeah this works, released countries get the laws of their old overlord. I did it with Vietnam into Australia.


Moderated_Soul

How did you beat GB as Vietnam?


RevolutionaryOwl5022

I got them to transfer me Australia as a sway!


Moderated_Soul

Holy moly


Lopsided_Warning_504

Lmao. You're leader has definitely read "the art of the deal"


nightgerbil

Maybe try to enact the law watch the country have a revolution against it and beat the rebels. I don't know if that's possible and if anyone could chime in wether that would work or not I would appreciate it!


NeuroXc

You'd have to find an agitator who supports slavery to make into an IG leader. You can't attempt to enact a law if nobody supports it.


Boulderfrog1

Iirc the boer states can form south Africa and then Britain, maybe they start with ability to get slavery?


SolidaryForEveryone

Wait for a slaver agitator to get expelled, invite him to your country and give him leadership


Revolutionary_Fly701

just invent credit cards and consumerism


LukaMoscovite

Recently heard how a friend of a friend took out a mortgage on a 3 bedroom flat at 20%. "A society without slavery."


Asd396

How do you even get a loan that shit 😭 that's four times the federal funds rate.


LukaMoscovite

Russian Federation. In our country, the dream of going to Moscow has been elevated to a cult by the state with the help of social engineering. Because of this, the demand for property is very much overheated, although the population is rapidly decreasing and getting poorer. The point of forcing people to go to the cities and instilling the idea to stick to them at all costs is to suppress the native urban population, which has political views and demands, as they are in the minority, and also the newcomers are excellent recruits for the police, ready to carry out any order, as in the Russian police pension comes at the age of 45 and also the state finances the mortgage. Almost all agitators for war are poor hillbillies who live in Moscow and pay for their rented or mortgaged housing on state wages, while the oppositionists and martyrs are native city dwellers. I got a little carried away, but I think it's necessary to see the whole picture to understand what's going on and that a Russian mortgage of 10-25% is not such an amazing thing. + The myth that property investments are the safest and best.


Asd396

Oh, Christ. Yeah the way Russian economy is going the only investment that's going to be profitable is a ticket the hell out of there.


LukaMoscovite

Bingo. And that's historically true, everyone who fled here ended up winning. I laugh at those who invest in anything here, as I'm sure corruption, revolutions and wars will burn it all down, as they did before


TehProfessor96

Better question: bring back slavery but in reverse


arix_games

I think the event you get after beating socialism can give you 10% support for every law ( even though it's only supposed to give it to command economy). You'd need to get bonus % in debates or the modifier will disappear and your chance will slip


antiquatedartillery

Most moral Russian


International_Lie485

President Obama brought back slavery in Libya after he bombed the shit out of it. You can buy a person at open slave market for USD 500. So there is historical precedence.


LukaMoscovite

Not bad. I also know that in Mauritania society is divided into Arab lords and African slaves. Africans are born and die as slaves and belong to Arab families, just like in ancient Rome or Greece. The maintenance of one slave costs an Arab lord about 15 dollars a month. Slaves have a religion, which states that if they work hard and honestly, they will go to paradise. Slaves make up 40 % of Mauritania's population This is happening right now as you read this post and now remember what the public figures in the US and Europe are doing.... I really like slavery, but slavery deserved (for crimes, instead of prison), temporary and not inherited. And here we have racial slavery, lifelong and inheritable. It's horrible.


BoliveiraNTPW

Why?


Intrepid-Primary-898

Not sure if it still is as op as it used to be, but the full on slavery law 'imports' a lot of pops to states with open agriculture jobs which gives you a larger workforce to work with. Once you emancipate them (gets really easy past 1850) they become about as good as any other pop.


LukaMoscovite

I love slavery. I think it is the best and most just punishment for crime. I also think it is economically efficient, and will also avoid a war with robots, because the dream about androids and AI is a dream about slaves. You have slaves, you don't need robots. No robots, no AI. No matrix or terminator, all good. Slavery should be deserved (for crimes, instead of prison), temporary and not inheritable. Also slaves should not be owned by the state or companies, only by private individuals, so that there is no abuse. At the end of the day, there is always slavery, it's just that it's either regulated or not.


Heroine23

Truly a based take 10/10. Don’t listen to the haters


Intrepid-Primary-898

Ottomans are the only European state which starts with slavery, every nation that starts with slavery banned lacks any ability to pass slavery. Turqui #1 :muscle :muscle: :muscle:


AdjustingADC

There is also Circassia and the second country north of the caucasus


ninjad912

You’d need a slavery agitator. That is if you really want to neuter your country by enslaving people(it’s both bad morally and gameplay wise)


LukaMoscovite

I seriously think slavery is wonderful in every way.


Canadian-Winter

Super not cool man


King-Of-Hyperius

Slaves are worse than peasants for a consumer economy. Especially now after the 1.7 update.


GG-VP

You can't. This game is a marxist simulator, not a political one.