Rich Countries Are Becoming Addicted to Cheap Labor

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• Sdnimm543@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Becoming?

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• pickman_model@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  are becoming

  Unlike when?

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• thfi@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I recall hearing that already during the classical antiquity the Greeks and later the Roman could have invented steam engines (for reference of their technical skills see the Antikythera mechanism), but the abundance of cheaper slave workers made this economically infeasible.

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• e_t_@kbin.pithyphrase.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The Atlantic slave trade says what?

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• FeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Paywalled article :|

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