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Re:Why No Roman Industrial Revolution? by rjsw on Friday July 28, 2023 @06:50PM (#36914425)
Rome had slaves, they didn't get the option to move jobs for better pay.
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Re:Why No Roman Industrial Revolution? by isykt on Friday July 28, 2023 @09:17PM (#36915725)
That was my intuition — that even if a plague came through and reduced the workforce, there were always new peoples to enslave. But I’m not sure about that.
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