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<blockquote data-quote="Sejs" data-source="post: 3394528" data-attributes="member: 4910"><p>The argument he's making is based off .. let's call it 'extractable utility'. You can get X amount of work out of a slave before it is too old to be able to work anymore. So, by that reasoning, elves make good slaves because they live for a long time - they have a great extractable utility ratio.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The counter-argument is that <em>A)</em> elves breed slowly, so it's a pain in the butt to expand your slave workforce, <em>B)</em> the con penalty hurts in any labour-intensive uses, <em>C)</em> they have a natural chaotic bent and are resistant to mind control, and <em>D)</em> there are definitely instances in which having a slave race that's longer lived than their masters is a very bad thing. </p><p></p><p>With shorter-lived races you basically get a cultural memory reset every so often. You're slaves, your parents were slaves, their parents were slaves, and so on. You know that you wern't always salves, but nobody you know's ever met anyone from the homelands, let alone been there themselves. Obediance is bred right in. Not so with elves. You've got an elven slave that's been in your family for six generations ... that elf still remembers when he himself was free. That's dangerous.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sejs, post: 3394528, member: 4910"] The argument he's making is based off .. let's call it 'extractable utility'. You can get X amount of work out of a slave before it is too old to be able to work anymore. So, by that reasoning, elves make good slaves because they live for a long time - they have a great extractable utility ratio. The counter-argument is that [i]A)[/i] elves breed slowly, so it's a pain in the butt to expand your slave workforce, [i]B)[/i] the con penalty hurts in any labour-intensive uses, [i]C)[/i] they have a natural chaotic bent and are resistant to mind control, and [i]D)[/i] there are definitely instances in which having a slave race that's longer lived than their masters is a very bad thing. With shorter-lived races you basically get a cultural memory reset every so often. You're slaves, your parents were slaves, their parents were slaves, and so on. You know that you wern't always salves, but nobody you know's ever met anyone from the homelands, let alone been there themselves. Obediance is bred right in. Not so with elves. You've got an elven slave that's been in your family for six generations ... that elf still remembers when he himself was free. That's dangerous. [/QUOTE]
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