>>13498286Prison labour exists but it is not institutional slavery, it is merely a way to extract value from prisoners. Value is extracted from everyone and everything. Generation Alpha, kids watching youtube, generates a tremendous amount of GDP. Slavery is not the ideal way to profit off of individuals since slaves do not pay taxes nor do slaves buy goods. This is a big lesson of the video game Victoria 2.
You are right about the replicants, they had psychological holes caused by them lacking a childhood. There was a whole replicant test, that was a big plot point because it was the only way to distinguish between replicants and humans. Maybe watching blade runner again would show some lessons
