Re: Slavery

From: Craig Presson (dhr@iname.com)
Date: Fri Mar 27 1998 - 02:05:12 MST


On 27 Mar 98 at 6:10, rrandall6@juno.com (Randall R Randall) wrote:
[...]
> Not at all. Investment in slaves doesn't produce slaves
> which are many times more productive than the originals.
> Investment in factories does.

You left out a significant factor: slaves are self-reproducing, and
_pace_ von Neumann, factories are not.

-- dhr@iname.com (Freeman Craig Presson)



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