>>12978049>They use vice-slavery which has incredibly rapid turnover rate and produces low quality slaves. This relies heavily upon importing and capturing new slaves who have not become so tolerant of vice that they're wastemen junkies who can't get high anymore thus cannot be compelled to work by addiction.The Phonetician had access to the Sea and could recruit fresh new recruits. The way vice slavery works is that it tempts you to work by rewarding you with vice in exchange for your work. This is why it is so readily able to contest and recruit people from other civilizations, because civilizations generally attempt to deter vice because vice is harmful to the wellbeing of civilization.
Beyond the fact that vice spreads disease, sickness, and mental feebleness, using Vice as a means to enslave people means that your slaves eventually become tolerant to vice. If you were enslaving somebody with heroin, for example, you would need higher and higher quantities of heroin to ensure that the addict is sated enough by their reward for work.
Eventually vice-slaves become too tolerant to their payment in vice to feel pleasure, and this produces discontent and anger. They feel like they're not being rewarded for their work because the vice they receive as payment is insufficient. This is why America is always furious. They are tolerant to their endless vice, it produces little pleasure any more, and they demand a bigger hit, a stronger hit. They want free everything, endless pleasure, all without working.
This is the state of the American addiction to vice, they can't get high, the slave-masters can't afford to get them high and the people riot in anger because they want to get high on vice. This is why vice-slavers always need to import people aggressively who have low tolerance to vice, because a modest addiction compelling a slave is much more affordable than a junkie level addiction, and junkies seldom produce high quality work.