Usually slaves and/or other people in an underclass at least had their own living quarters separate from where the lords lived? The idea is that when humanity becomes astronomically rich, the equivalent to “the shed in the backyard the slave sleeps in” ends up being a whole moon rather than, well, a shed in the backyard.
(It’s also noteworthy that most slave societies in the past weren’t rich enough that the slave population lived at or above subsistence level and reproduced enough to maintain its population level; for example, relatively few slaves in the ancient Roman Empire were born into slavery. The slave states in the pre-Civil War USA were an exception—there was much that a plantation slave had to suffer, but a significant risk of death by starvation or exposure was not something they usually had to deal with.)
Disclaimer: This is an explanation, not an endorsement of the underlying prediction.
Usually slaves and/or other people in an underclass at least had their own living quarters separate from where the lords lived? The idea is that when humanity becomes astronomically rich, the equivalent to “the shed in the backyard the slave sleeps in” ends up being a whole moon rather than, well, a shed in the backyard.
(It’s also noteworthy that most slave societies in the past weren’t rich enough that the slave population lived at or above subsistence level and reproduced enough to maintain its population level; for example, relatively few slaves in the ancient Roman Empire were born into slavery. The slave states in the pre-Civil War USA were an exception—there was much that a plantation slave had to suffer, but a significant risk of death by starvation or exposure was not something they usually had to deal with.)
Disclaimer: This is an explanation, not an endorsement of the underlying prediction.