| The Messenian helots were lost to Sparta when Epaminondas liberated Messenia c. 370, but the helot system continued in Laconia until the 2nd century bc. |
| In addition to being super-exploited, Dubai's helots are also expected to be generally invisible. |
| The new, networked society of global helots is here and now. |
| A man who conceives and writes a great book, my friend, has done more work than all the helots that laboured on these pyramidal futilities. |
| It is only because the pay and conditions of leading professional footballers were so recently those of moderately skilled factory helots that Best and his contemporaries look so excessively and immodestly affluent. |
| But the message could also be read another way: robot overlords forcing human helots into back-breaking labour. |
