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> throw hordes of people at it The other key is that the hordes of people should be expendable. Imagine what our GDP would be like if companies were still all
by bluefirebrand 5y ago
> throw hordes of people at it
The other key is that the hordes of people should be expendable.
Imagine what our GDP would be like if companies were still allowed to work us all to death!
Oh wait.
- WalterBright 5y agoWe have several recent examples of countries that worked their populations to death. Their GDP was in the dumpster. Those methods cannot compete with free labor. Pulling on this thread a bit more - slavery died out because it became uncompetitive. I suspect it being found to be immoral around the same time is not a coincidence.
- bsder 5y ago> The other key is that the hordes of people should be expendable. Except that they really weren't. The Egyptian pyramids, for example, had an entire support ecosystem around it--guilds, hospitals, lodging, everything. The people working on building the pyramids were probably slightly better off than the average person.