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At scale lucrative enough to stage coups in Latin America. Read up upon this. Let us not even go deeper to the Age of Sail. Large-scale trade and consumption o
by inglor_cz 4mo ago
At scale lucrative enough to stage coups in Latin America. Read up upon this.
Let us not even go deeper to the Age of Sail. Large-scale trade and consumption of sugar, tobacco and cotton fueled slavery operations from Virginia down to Brazil, long before a lightbulb was even a thing.
- Windchaser 4mo agoI mean, the better point there would be "we could scale back on our cost of living, if we wanted to". That is what I figured the "we don't have to ship fruit around the world" was trying to get at, even if bananas are actually pretty cost-effective. (Still usually the cheapest fruit in $/lb)