alt Hacker News> Slave labor is most efficient when it comes to non-skilled, hard work.
And yet, we invent things like the cotton gin, "enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation", patented in 1794.
> Slave labor is most efficient when it comes to non-skilled, hard work.
And yet, we invent things like the cotton gin, "enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation", patented in 1794.
I’m not entirely sure what point you’re trying to make. The invention of the cotton gin increased the use of slaves; it didn’t decrease it.
https://freedomcenter.org/voice/eli-whitney-cotton-gin/