> productivity > yeah but SLAVES It's astounding to me that so many people completely missed the point that these two things are related. I'm going to go out

> productivity > yeah but SLAVES It's astounding to me that so many people completely missed the point that these two things are related. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that GP's family probably didn't have an army of black people doing all their chores and generating a healthy income stream to live off, for free, so that they could engage full-time in civics.