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Yes, kinda? I mean, we basically replaced slavery by machine work, no? Its "free labor" as machines do not try to escape, and are fed with stuff we find underg

by orwin 4y ago

Yes, kinda? I mean, we basically replaced slavery by machine work, no? Its "free labor" as machines do not try to escape, and are fed with stuff we find underground so they don't compete for our food. I don't think slavery would have been abolished without the industrial revolution.

unmole 4y ago
> Its "free labor" as machines do not try to escape, That is most certainly not the usual interpretation of free labor. The overwhelming majority of slaves in the US were field hands in plantations growing cash crops. How exactly did rudimentary agricultural mechanization around the time of the American Civil War in any way precipitate abolition?