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Re:Why No Roman Industrial Revolution? by esafak on Friday July 28, 2023 @07:53PM (#36915013)
I don't see slavery as a necessary development towards industrialization. It is more of a consequence of an the absence of a moral philosophy that valued individual rights. It just so happened that moral philosophy (the Enlightenment) and industrialization developed concomitantly in the West.
Re:Why No Roman Industrial Revolution? by robviren on Friday July 28, 2023 @08:22PM (#36915304)
Nor do I. I was mainly stating that I think the absence of slavery is needed. You need the motivation to get more efficient labor and the laborers themselves can earn money and innovative. A slave with innovative ideas probably had the idea whipped out of them for trying to work less hard. Obviously not the only factor, but it would seem a logical story to me.