[ExI] Slavery Now and in the Past (was: Health system, again)

Max More max at maxmore.com
Tue Apr 15 13:49:55 UTC 2008


At 01:32 PM 4/13/2008, Olga Bourlin wrote:
>From: "Rafal Smigrodzki" <rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com>
>To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
>
>
>And it wasn't only the "minority of wealthy landowners" who profited from
>slavery- early America's economy grew and prospered greatly from slavery
>(free labor! free labor! how can any economic system beat that?) .

By having non-free labor in which you invest further resources to 
develop human capital. The resulting labor force costs considerably 
more, but also is far more productive and skilled.

Max


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Strategic Philosopher
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