STO: Well meant and unintentional slavery

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Here's an example that I was just thinking about in our own society: homework. We assign it to children because we think, basically, that it's good for them, but isn't it really forcing them to do something whether they want to or not? I could envision a pre-veil society where children are given tasks to do because it's considered good for them.

What if a child could choose from among a whole panoply of skills and academic interests and be trusted to act under their own inner guidance? Why must it be "assigned" to them by some other who thinks they know better what is the appropriate sequence for learning lessons?

Would there be rules about how much people had to contribute and how much they could receive? If so, that could easily lead to well-intentioned slavery.

Yes, I see how it could lead to that. Though if such a system were truly transparent, it might be exceedingly difficult to manipulate. I would conjecture that if it were clear for all to see who was making the largest net contribution, and who was making the largest net withdrawal, behavior control through law wouldn't be necessary.

It just seems likely to me that a structural response to disharmony would involve creating rules about what type of actions were considered to induce disharmony and hence should be controlled.

Well that certainly appears to be what happened!