Before everybody rages at me all at once, let me explain. I'm talking about keeping slavery as it existed before the Americans enslaved the African Americans and treated them like cattle ...etc.
I am NOT saying we should have kept enslaving the blacks and I think that the Civil war was a push in the right direction and exposed the awful way in which Americans used to enslave the blacks. But, merely that we should have kept slavery as it existed since the beginning of time from before that. We shouldn't have abolished slavery just the way people treated their slaves and people are varying color at the time.
Technically slavery as it existed in Biblical times existed as the rich or middle class providing housing and food to the poor class was not only biblical but it was the way society ran for several thousands of years. They also used to treat their slaves with kindness and respect and treated them like one of their own and definitely not like the way Americans used to treat the African Americans. Once America came around slavery took a turn for the worse and I don't blame Lincoln one bit for starting the civil war. I'm not saying change the world and bring back slaves I'm just asking "should we have kept the slaves?"
I mean you could argue that slavery is out of date now and there isn't much for slaves to do anymore. But there is PLENTY that a slave could do for their master including things that a butler or a maid can do for us. And we don't have to pay like $200,000 a year for those services. Do you agree? Why or why not?
I think I get what your trying to say, but your probably wrong about the past though, but, that being said, even if we "modified" it for today's age and times, etc, no matter how kindly and respectfully a "slave" is treated, they are never ever truly "free" ever, and part of the American dream was for everyone to be free...
If we could find a way around that maybe, but, good luck, and I do agree with you however, that it probably would be much cheaper than the current system that is bankrupting us, and is not taking care of everybody properly anymore either, in part due to that, etc, but, a slave is never free, no matter what, or how you would choose to modify it, or update it for today's age and times, etc...
The closest thing would be willing servants, who would be clothed, housed, well fed, treated with great kindness and respect, have proper medical care, security in being taken care of for life, and always have this treatment no matter what happened to or with them, treatment that would have to go even "way beyond basic human rights", etc, and could choose to be such and opt out at any time, switch masters at any time, etc, but I still don't think that ever would or could ever work either...
They would have to free in many ways if you did, and that's basically the system we have now, etc... Were, a lot of us, still slaves in some or many ways, but also very free in a lot of ways or a great deal of ways too...
Some would rather be homeless and on the street rather than be well taken care of but have to a servant or a slave... And I don't blame them either, freedom is a very precious and valuable thing, and came at a high cost for, well, everyone, both in times past and still does sometimes today, but it is a high cost that a lot of people consider "very well worth it", and would rather be, let's just say, "a poor but free person, than a rich (or much richer in a lot of ways) but not free person", is the only way I know how to put it...
God Bless!