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>what is deterrent effect
>what is shrinkage
even today companies just accept a certain amount of loss due to shoplifting etc. the cost of disciplining your slaves is a cost but it's easily justified as the cost of doing business. the idea that slave owners wouldn't beat their own slaves because hurr durr they're wrecking their own workers is fucking naive.
>"but-but-but"
i don't care. we know it happened because we have mountains of evidence that it happened. even if we accept that it doesn't make sense - which i don't - that doesn't change the fact that it happened. but it does make sense, because deterrence as well as simple cruelty and sadism.
it's not like the business owner is the one handing out the punishments anyway most of the time, and cletus and yancy don't give a fuck about the bottom line they just want to come down hard on uppity niggers.