>> > > Do you really think that slavery produces wealth?
>> >
>> > Yeah, but not for the slaves.
>>
>> I used my words carefully.
>
>I know. I was just playing around.
>
>
>> While slave labor may produce some wealth which some slave holders may well
>> acquire
>
>If a slave holder has a lot of slaves, it is a very effective means of
>producing wealth for the slave holder.
Wait -- "producing wealth" in the sense that Tristan mentioned it,
was more as in "the wealth of nations", ie, grossly adding to the
overall level of the planet That's in contrast to one person getting
"wealthy" compared to those around him at the time.
For instance, any dickhead perl programmer circa 1990 is
spectacularly more wealthy (in any measureable way ...
quality/quantity of food, household appliances, vehicles etc) than an
antedilluvian planter family.
> Wealth is produced through labor.
Nah -- it's not like you to be wrong Viking! :)
Labor is *shit*. It has nothing to do with wealth. Wealth is ideas.
No one ever has gotten rich through labor.
In a few years, what, ten, labor will cease to exist, simple robots
will be able to take your order at McDonalds and install plumbing.
Indeed the US civil war was about the South (a LABOR-BASED society --
a very old fashioned economic idea) versus the North (an INDUSTRIAL
society -- a somewhat more modern idea at the time)
"Labor" is no more central to pure wealth creation than, say,
"Franchizing" or "Derivatives". Franchiing, Labor and Derivatives
were all interesting key concepts that in different historical eras
were important in wealth creation, but there's no sense in which any
of those "produce" wealth"
Wealth is only produced in one simple way -- human thought.
Douglas Jackson thinks up e-gold .... wealth.
>Large amounts of 'free' labor produce large amounts of wealth for the
>holder of the 'free' labor.
>
>
>> slavery itself is not **productive** of more wealth than freedom.
>
>Very true. Much more freedom is taken away than wealth is produced.
>
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