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There are some differences between being a chattel slave and a wage slave.

If you have a chattel slave, you won't waste money investing in teaching them new skills.

If you have a wage slave, why would you invest in teaching someone a new skill? After they master the skill, you now have to pay them market rate for that skill (or they'll leave). So why not just pay market rate from the beginning rather than investing in training someone?

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A slave master is highly motivated to invest in a slave's skills, because the master extracts the profit of that investment.

That's what gp comment is saying. Rewriting it for clarity:

"If you have a chattel slave, investing in teaching them new skills is not a waste of money".

> So why not just pay market rate from the beginning rather than investing in training someone?

Limited availability? Need for combining a skill with other skills? There are good reasons.

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