The Great Enrichment
The Economic History Podcast
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The Slavery Economy Is Not Exploitation, but Innovation
Slavery is not about exploiting people, it's about finding new ways of doing the old products. The yield of a cotton plant increased by a factor of four from careful, selective breeding of seeds. It's simple experimentation and careful observation that made for the success of the slave economy. If you have slaves operating with computers and are educated and engineering so on then you're going to be rich.
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