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Re:We are under attack by rmc on Friday March 20, 2015 @06:31AM (#9236910)
Actually, there is some evidence that slavery was very economically efficient. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' by E Baptist lays out how enslaved labour picked much more cotton than the then free labour.
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Re:We are under attack by Kalium on Friday March 20, 2015 @11:56AM (#9238443)
Interesting! I'll look it up.

That was then, though. Now, when skilled labor is of greater importance and unskilled labor of comparatively little value, I submit that things may well be very different.

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