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Re:CEO of Uber: Gig Workers Deserve Better by nouveaux on Monday August 10, 2020 @06:22PM (#24114759)
Prior to Keynes, the US built it's wealth on slave labor. The cost for human rights is high.
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Re:CEO of Uber: Gig Workers Deserve Better by cltby on Monday August 10, 2020 @06:56PM (#24115090)
There is a strong consensus among economic historians that slavery didn't move the needle that much. Cotton production was perhaps 5% of GDP. The slave stock constituted perhaps 15% of national wealth.

https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.eeh.2017.12.002

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Re:CEO of Uber: Gig Workers Deserve Better by michaelmrose on Monday August 10, 2020 @08:52PM (#24116077)
Slavery wasn't an evenly distributed affair.
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