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P267
Slavery will return as nations without access to cheap oil will enslave people as an energy source

What Jiang said

“If you can no longer have access to cheap oil, what you do is you enslave people. And that's the way historically we've done things”

Analysis

For most of human history, humans were cheap energy. Without cheap oil, nations will return to enslaving people.

Source lecture

• Game Theory #15

Status history

• 2026-05-23 · Pending (glm)

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