last nights meeting

last night when i was in a meeting with a cartel of international businessmen one of these bigwigs stood up and gave a speech he said gentlemen consider the following honestly would you rather have a wife or a prostitute now think about it a wife you must provide for all the rest of your life but a prostitute you pay for only an hour of her time

this man then explained that his point was not about women but about labor because the place where we businessmen had gathered for our meeting was an island whose inhabitants were our slaves the bigwig submitted that we businessmen should end slavery and switch to a system of wage labor for the same reason that it is cheaper to buy a prostitute than a wife

i thought this was puzzling i had never encountered this argument i stood up and said but sir we can treat our slaves however we please whereas a hired worker will demand various rights

the bigwig answered what is our goal to make a profit or to abuse subhumans moreover he said beware if we do not set them free then soon these slaves will become our masters or worse our executioners

this frightened the rest of the international businessmen so they all agreed to abolish slavery but i was stubborn i voted against it then having lost i gathered my slaves and moved to another island i also took with me all those mens wives