Identify the most capable ones, the ones most likely to lead a movement against you, and reward them with work of responsibility and dignity. Get them on your side, have them cooperate with you in oppressing their own brothers. Get them to sell out.
Posca and the Jackson character represent this role. They are the co-opted, the race traitors, the collaborators. They are the capos that helped run the NAZI death camps. In societies that no longer practice full chattel slavery, this role survives in the administrative/bureaucratic/managerial/executive castes--IOW, the middle class.
Convince them you're on their side, skim off their talent and employ it to
extend your control over their brothers, let them believe they too can be entrepreneurs, owners, bosses, businessmen. And let just enough of them succeed to make the whole fairy tale believable.
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That's one way to control your slaves.
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- Nikki don't lose that number
- It's in the very first sentence.