This is the reason slavery was sustained for millennium. High piled carpets came only after the abolition of slavery. Funny how socialism continues slavery.
Artificially low wages - including slavery - destroy innovation, progress, wealth and moral integrity. There was no industrial revolution in the ancient world – despite the fact that the Romans knew all about the steam engine – because of slavery.https://twitter.com/MarkSKrikorian/status/1122877508528087040 …
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& for those who don't know this is the kind of steam engine that the ancient Romans & even Greek already knew about (engineering history) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile
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"Romans knew about the steam engine" Have to question that one.
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Inventing new stuff and getting them commonly used are two different things.
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Its not believed the romans did have almost fully automated bread factory's powered by water wheels. and were able to produce loaves of bead efficiently. and recently a native factory has been discover in the american west were they mass produced goods out of millions of buffalo
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Its almost funny to hear Dems talk about slavery as if we don't work illegal migrants in harsh weather, long hours, and hard work for cheap. I drive by slaves everyday in the vineyards, they are vulnerable in every way. Its not American.
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There is a laundry mat downtown and has these chicken coup looking shacks, I've been told a bunch of migrants live in them, and get charged an arm and a leg. The owners are Mexican. 2 girls have gone missing past couple of years, parents won't go to cops. Cheap food is expensive.
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Correct. Slavery in the US, along with Jim Crow, also set a wage floor for contemporary white workers. A lot of the racial tension stemmed from low-productivity whites trying to exclude black ex-slaves, who were just as productive at a lower wage, from labour markets.
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Another simplistic & basic pontification from Stephan Molyneux, the mechanisms that drove the industrial revolution, namely capitalism needed specific set of realities b4 taking place. It's complex needing an ideal storm of political, legal, social & economic realities...
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Yes! I've been arguing this for years! You are the 3rd person who seems to have realized this. When did the Industrial Revolution happen? When the last Bastion of slavery (U.S.) finally rid itself of slavery & we had to find another way to produce work. Sagan said this on Cosmos.
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The romans where quick to adapt thou so if someone else had developed the steam engine, then they would have picked it up.
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The invention of the steam engine & something like it needed major conceptual shifts 2 occur. A quick look at history shows that old ways die hard, humans tend to stick with what works. Ancient Egypt used bow & arrow as weapon of war 4 more than 4000 years of connected history.
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Western Rome fell in 5th century. Eastern Rome (Byzantine) continued for ~1,000 years after. Eastern Rome converted to nearly free labor by 8th century. So, that’s about seven or eight hundred years of great wealth and w/o slavery. Your theory isn’t figuratively water-tight.
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