Explain how slavery built the Internet or triggered the space race.
A tremendous amount of things in the past were created by skilled artisans, workers, farmers etc.
And in those cases where people had to do difficult work and suffered, that was because there were no other ways of accomplishing that work.
It's not that there was some cabal of evil leaders making life hard for the masses, it's that in order to accomplish things like mining and large scale public works without machines, hard manual labor was necessary.
Of course we could have just not done any of this, but then we would still be hunter gatherers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun#Slave_labor
"More people died building the V-2 rockets than were killed by it as a weapon"
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun#NASA_career
"American authorities then chose to use von Braun and his German team's experience with missiles to create an orbital launch vehicle. Wernher von Braun had such an idea originally proposed in 1954, but it was denied at the time.[60]"
This was literally the result of the Cold War.
> Internet
Partially the same as above, also, there's no denying that they're isn't any suffering because of the Internet.
> Inca Trail, Biblao Museum
These mostly came about because of mechanization or better technology…