Which, naturally, did not happen, because railroads are expensive. That said, were the Silicon Valley-esque idea of machines being absolutely superior to men true, then Qing China would have been crisscrossed with railroads by 1800. Machines are more extreme, either being impossibly good, or utterly useless, depending on the job. Humans tend to be closer to a Gaussian distribution individually, and a power distribution collectively, in their ability to produce things. A poorly made machine has poor reliability. Imagine life-debts and consumer slavery for instance, or some evil form of chemical dependence introduced to slave populations requiring them to get a dose every, say, eight hours, but leaves them otherwise capable of a wide variety of tasks and living a life with generally free will and movement.Ī broken machine has infinite unreliability. On the slave-money note, though, there have been so many different forms of slavery in Earth history, some of which put people who were 'slaves' in commercial positions as shopkeepers or traders in goods for their owners, that in the darkness of the far future I have to imagine there are an even wider variety of forms of cruel bondage which aren't limited to physical labor. It's just really hard to see Slaver Guilds as anything other than a self-imposed RP restriction. Slaver Guilds would be much better if it, say, granted access to a better version of the Slave Processing Facility, or increased slave output and decreased slave political power, or added special 'slave lord' jobs to planets like Aristocratic Elite or Technocracy add nobles and science directors or.something. That's particularly true in 2.2 when it's much easier to pick up a large number and wide variety of foreign species POPs than before, and then set them to slavery and watch them grow. Yeah, Slaver Guilds is a little hard to understand as a perk because there are so many other ways to attain a good slave-focused outcome on authoritarian.
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