And it did happen, slavery was mostly gone or greatly diminished within the next century. Sure there was a war during the middle of all of that but, again, the world cannot change over night and it'd take a couple of generations of societal "reprogramming" to get people to accept the idea.
As I said, something like that wasn't going to change over night, especially in the situation they were in. Similar things happen today when it comes to Day Laborers and the use of illegal migrant workers it's fundamentally wrong to use a "slave labor" force like that.
Now, granted, migrant workers may not be as mis-treated as the slaves were -by any stretch- but they're highly underpaid for the work they do but it's being done and more-or-less tolerated because it's a "necessary evil" because they ARE jobs they your average citizen isn't going to take and if he does take it he's going to command a higher salary than a day laborer commands. I'm not saying it's right but as it stands it something that has to be tolerated and phased out rather than flipping the switch and ending it instantly which would bring many industries to a screeching halt.
So, sure, maybe someone does have to take that first step and not use slaves, or migrant workers, or whatever and do things the right way, then use that as a "selling point" for his product and its higher prices and start a trend that ripples through the industry over the course of years or decades but the world isn't going to change over night.
Hell even after slavery was ended nearly a century after the Constitution was signed it still took nearly another century for blacks to be treated as equals in society as far as where they could go and what they can do around the country and even today there's still hurdles but mostly in the form of individual biases and even that may still take another century of "societal reprogramming" to eliminate.
As I said, something like that wasn't going to change over night, especially in the situation they were in. Similar things happen today when it comes to Day Laborers and the use of illegal migrant workers it's fundamentally wrong to use a "slave labor" force like that.
Now, granted, migrant workers may not be as mis-treated as the slaves were -by any stretch- but they're highly underpaid for the work they do but it's being done and more-or-less tolerated because it's a "necessary evil" because they ARE jobs they your average citizen isn't going to take and if he does take it he's going to command a higher salary than a day laborer commands. I'm not saying it's right but as it stands it something that has to be tolerated and phased out rather than flipping the switch and ending it instantly which would bring many industries to a screeching halt.
So, sure, maybe someone does have to take that first step and not use slaves, or migrant workers, or whatever and do things the right way, then use that as a "selling point" for his product and its higher prices and start a trend that ripples through the industry over the course of years or decades but the world isn't going to change over night.
Hell even after slavery was ended nearly a century after the Constitution was signed it still took nearly another century for blacks to be treated as equals in society as far as where they could go and what they can do around the country and even today there's still hurdles but mostly in the form of individual biases and even that may still take another century of "societal reprogramming" to eliminate.
