Intergalactic Summit

On this day i call to all of you, whether we are brothers and sisters in blood or we are sworn enemies. I call to you to look towards hope and join me not as alliances or corporations or even coalitions, but as pilots. Those of these worlds who have the abilities and the rights to fly free from any governing body or master of any kind. I stand here as an individual representative of no one other than I, and i ask you all to stand with me in the mission to liberate as many captive souls in our systems as we can. It is an abomination in times such as ours that we still hold to the old tenements of slavery to accomplish our mighty deeds, and that we all stand by and let this continue. As a personal mission of mine as well as it should be yours i aim to free every last slave i come across no matter the cost to myself; whether that cost is meager Isk, a true flying ship, or even my life.

Choose to fly with this joyous mission in your hearts and your cockpits. Let us go down in the history of New Eden as the crusaders of freedom.


Fly true my Comrades.

If they've committed a crime that can be proved to have created a victim.

Death to Concord! Or wait, death to Amarr! Wait, death to the Gallante and caldari! No, death to...... I dunno Sansha? Death to them all I guess....

Right, so commenting on how it doesn't address who exactly were rising up against is trolling.... You were saying?

I call you to look for the God and seek love instead of destruction.

If you want to end slavery, you have to cut off the economic viability of slavery.

Slavery is very legal in the Amarr Empire for a variety of religious and economic reasons.

For economic and diplomatic reasons, Amarr slavery has been sanctioned by CONCORD. So therefore, the State, the Federation and yes, even the Republic, as CONCORD treaty signatories, also sanction the practice of slavery within Amarr. They all reap the benefits of a strong Amarr economy which has, at its foundation, a workforce made up of slaves. None of your governments is willing, let alone able, to stop the practice.

So don't moralize to us on the evils of slavery while you reap the benefits of slavery and pay taxes to your government and CONCORD who support the institution.

You don't like slavery? Don't own slaves.

Sinjin, nearly every economist in the cluster besides those sponsored by the Amarr government will tell you that slavery as an economic institution weakens the Amarrian economy, which keeps up with the others in terms of GDP by sheer population size alone. Compare that to the Gallente, who have a similar sized economy with significantly fewer people, why is that? Automation via drones, yes, but every other empire other compared to Amarr has a higher economic output per person than Amarr, and this is easy to reason why when you realize that slaves are essentially left out of the measurable economy of the country besides their value as an input to production. They are not consumers, so their economic value is severely underutilized. This is almost not even debated anymore in Amarr. Even in Amarr the argument has become the religious one. I studied economics at Caille as an exchange student in Amarr and wrote at length about this in my dissertation. I can link you to a more theoretical version of the arguments I made, from it, on the Summit a few months back.. (I didn't want to bombard people on the Summit with giant graphs, equations, and charts, which I always found dull and meaningless anyway).

That is, assuming I have the patience to find them.

Amarr does not hold slaves, as a country, because it economically benefits Amarr. It actually hurts Amarr. The only person who benefits economically is the Holder. It holds back the country as a whole. By and large, there are three reasons the Amarr continue to hold slaves, in terms of their internal politics.

1. Their religion sanctions and arguably demands it, and their religion is the most central part of their identity.
2. Their traditions sanction and arguably demand it, and their traditions are the second most central part of their identity.
3. The Holders have an immense amount of political capital and influence within Imperial politics, as a class. At every level of government, what they want and what is good for them tends to become dictated in law, assuming it does not conflict heavily with 1 (religion) and 2 (tradition). This is why the Holders as a class are very religious and very traditional. It's part of the rules of the game they play which keeps them in power. It's where their incentives lie. Sure, there are many Holders who truly believe they are doing what is best for humanity. But it is not a coincidence that these incentives all line up so remarkably well.

That is why slavery continues to exist in Amarr.

What she said. There's obviously a lot of differences between different regions, but slaves aren't entirely locked out of being consumers. I'd actually argue that overwhelming consumerism as seen in the Federation in particular and in the Republic and State to a lesser degree have their own significant drawbacks.

However, this does not really change that his point is more or less correct when it comes to the economy of a nation that rooted in the practices of slavery.