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The quote in question is "slavery built everything we love". Explain how slavery built the Internet or triggered the space race.
by hueving 9y ago
The quote in question is "slavery built everything we love".
Explain how slavery built the Internet or triggered the space race.
- saagarjha 9y agoNo, the quote is "great things accomplished without great human suffering or slavery".
- meri_dian 9y agoYeah, that's just being dramatic too. A tremendous amount of things in the past were created by skilled artisans, workers, farmers etc. And in those cases where people had to do difficult work and suffered, that was because there were no other ways of accomplishing that work. It's not that there was some cabal of evil leaders making life hard for the masses, it's that in order to accomplish things like mining and large scale public works without machines, hard manual labor was necessary. Of course we could have just not done any of this, but then we would still be hunter gatherers.
- goldenkey 9y agoSorry to dissapoint but see below: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun#Slave_labor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun#Slave_labor "More people died building the V-2 rockets than were killed by it as a weapon" ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun#NASA_career https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun#NASA_career "American authorities then chose to use von Braun and his German team's experience with missiles to create an orbital launch vehicle. Wernher von Braun had such an idea originally proposed in 1954, but it was denied at the time.[60]"
- hueving 9y agoNot slaves.
- skookumchuck 9y agoThe production of the V2 was done by slave labor, but the research and development of it was not. As far as I can tell there were no slaves at Peenemunde.
- kolpa 9y agoSoviet Union -> Stalin -> Communist hegemony in Europe -> Space Race