>>57144531>No mind control>No magic hentai drugsWell it depends, in the pokemon world human slavery would probably never exist as a practice and only be used in certain societies as a punishment for certain criminals.
Using pokemon as slaves instead of humans is just far more cost effective, it's like asking if you would rather run 5000 miles or drive 5000 miles in a car.
Making a proper slave out of a person and not just creating a slave that will rebel constantly is kinda hard without a slavery system already put in place.
As another anon said controlling the person's living space, food, pride and social contact are the ingredients in making a slave but these are anime personalities that have iron wills, this matters more for women.
Cynthia for example, a woman's worth as a slave is her appearance, you can't completely break Cynthia into a slave because that would damage the goods and would therefore be a waste of time/money.
The easiest way to make her comply would be to torture her pokemon whenever she disobeys. But what could you even do with a Cynthia slave, send her to work as a high class whore?
It all comes down to money. Any other reason is just torture porn and not anywhere close to reality, at that point just whip out the magic hentai drugs.
Money is why slavery vanished from the western world and has been outsourced to Asia/Africa, it just wasn't profitably here anymore.