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<blockquote data-quote="tsenfw" data-source="post: 4224528" data-attributes="member: 581534">Hmm yeah patent numbers is a good start.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t say the discussion was illegitabmate, just that you guys were taking liberties with your assumptions.I wasn&#039;t referring to the merits of owning slaves as increasing wealth, I am directly addressing the time saving to slave owners.&nbsp; Basically, I believe they would have been sitting on their ***** anyways.&nbsp; In what way would slaves make more time for the wealthy?&nbsp; Would these owners have been working in the fields themselves if they didn&#039;t have slaves?&nbsp; Hell no! lol.&nbsp; They would have hired more expensive but still &quot;cheap&quot; labor.&nbsp; It&#039;s not like most of the people of the time in America were wealthy.&nbsp; Look it the shitty pay that came later in time to US factory workers.&nbsp; There was abundant cheap labor in the US, just not as cheap as slave labor.So without slave labor the wealthy wouldn&#039;t have been as wealthy but they certainly wouldn&#039;t have been doing any manual labor themselves.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tsenfw, post: 4224528, member: 581534"] Hmm yeah patent numbers is a good start. I didn't say the discussion was illegitabmate, just that you guys were taking liberties with your assumptions. I wasn't referring to the merits of owning slaves as increasing wealth, I am directly addressing the time saving to slave owners. Basically, I believe they would have been sitting on their ***** anyways. In what way would slaves make more time for the wealthy? Would these owners have been working in the fields themselves if they didn't have slaves? Hell no! lol. They would have hired more expensive but still "cheap" labor. It's not like most of the people of the time in America were wealthy. Look it the shitty pay that came later in time to US factory workers. There was abundant cheap labor in the US, just not as cheap as slave labor. So without slave labor the wealthy wouldn't have been as wealthy but they certainly wouldn't have been doing any manual labor themselves. [/QUOTE]

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