(August 29, 2011 at 6:15 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Besides Sae, lost people is lost productivity, you don't even beat a slave to death. You stop right at the precipice. Believe the bible has a few words on the subject.
Maybe it does... only think about the economic model. If how much they could produce for you is less than the amount they eat... it's a loss.
Besides, they had to maintain the illusion their people were not slaves. Stalin managed to inspire a russia where friend might turn on friend, where lover might turn on lover, where a random stranger in the street might make an anonymous call that ships you off to the gulag.
Very effective to draw attention away from oneself and onto each other. I admire how seamlessly this was accomplished... though I would never mimic said methods.
True... and bears taking to heart... but my favored method is with honey to attract the flies than vinegar poured over them.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day