alt Hacker News> kingdom built on slavery
I’m not being facetious here, but isn’t the USA (and other nations) basically that? So much of the wealth was accrued through the “low” labor costs of early industry.
> kingdom built on slavery
I’m not being facetious here, but isn’t the USA (and other nations) basically that? So much of the wealth was accrued through the “low” labor costs of early industry.
Serious economists almost universally agree that slavery makes a country poorer not richer because free people are far more productive than slaves.