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"When America was 90%+ white (before ~1965), it experienced a huge surge of productivity" Yes, by enslaving blacks and exploiting non-whites, women, and childr
by mnm1 9y ago
"When America was 90%+ white (before ~1965), it experienced a huge surge of productivity"
Yes, by enslaving blacks and exploiting non-whites, women, and children, something that any population with a workforce of slaves could easily do in a country as big as the US thus making the "huge surge of productivity" hardly impressive and definitely not something to ever be repeated again.
- Humjob 9y agoI hate to break it to you, but non-whites, women and children (for the most part) didn't put a man on the moon or discover the scientific breakthroughs which created the vast wealth that enables you to sip your latte and whine about white male privilege on an complex, fantastic global network. Slaves (along with low-skill immigrants) are actually anti-technological in nature. In the economic equation of labor vs capital, they bring down the wage required to achieve certain goals and weight the scales massively in favor of using labor to solve problems. When you have fewer people, automation, capital and 'smart solutions' to business problems become more incentivized.
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