Wanted to say otherwise but I did enable the slave market by buying and freeing the enslaved pops so that they conveniently ended up in my sphere. (In my defense, I did eventually take a sledgehammer to the slaver empires' shins)

But yeah, it’s silly to me how a practice which was showing signs of obsolescence by the industrial age would be viable for space age economies. But Stellaris never pretended to be hard sci-fi tbf so idk