The funniest thing on this entire forum, is you saying that.
When in fact, YOU are the person on the right.
ROFL till DEAD.

debunked misinformation monday

Europe might have gained massively from colonial slavery, but it is still a fact that European, non-enslaved farmers were the backbone of agriculture in Europe, not slaves living overseas. Likewise, if all kinds of slavery were so extremely profitable, why didn't all the slave-holding empires throughout human history gain massive, entrenched wealth from it? Why is it that the European civilization (which includes its outposts in the U.S., Canada and Australia) of the enlightenment-industrialization-era became the first to establish global dominance and build up wealth which can exist without enslaving others?

The answer is quite simple: the true backbone of Western wealth is not colonialism or the remnants of slavery, its technological and societal progress, combined with an increased exploitation of natural resources. By the time the Civil War broke out in 1861, the productivity of the North was already surpassing that of the South by such a wide margin that the victory of the Union over the Confederacy was inevitable (as long as no foreign powers intervened). If anything, slavery was holding back the places which practiced it in the long run because it encouraged a labor-intense, low-productivity economy and disincentivized investment into education, infrastructure or research.




Yes, slavery changed the path of the US forever. The economic malaise of the rural South which persists to this day is a direct consequence of them sticking with slavery and racial segregation for too long, an economic/societal model which is just shitty and had no future anymore once industrialization picked up pace.

Sorry, but I won't consider a piece titled "slavery made America - the case for reparations" by Ta-Nehisi Coates an unbiased, credible source on this issue.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Jan 3 2022 05:11pm

"slavery changed the path of the US forever." is enough.

lol and why? have you read it? who do you think wrote a "fair and unbiased" book about slavery in your opinion?

exactly

the problems with slavery in societies holding them back were already there over 2000 years ago in the roman empire

they literally had to introduce quotas for roman citizens, because the slaves did all the work and roman men were unemployed in the streets creating trouble

using masses of slaves to build things can be an advantage, but overall an economy of free, skilled workers is vastly superior

I did.
Titled: Cry Me A River - The dindunuffin story.
Here is the summery.

Shit happens.
Get over it.
The end.