[SoCal Pubbie]

You do realize that there was more than one kind of steamboat engine in the antebellum era, right? That the technology of the manufacturing plants and economies of scale can give one region an advantage over another, right? That wages paid vs slave labor can result in a better and more efficient workforce, right? That not everything is a conspiracy, right?

[DiogenesLamp]

You do realize that there was more than one kind of steamboat engine in the antebellum era, right? That the technology of the manufacturing plants and economies of scale can give one region an advantage over another, right?

What would have been the artificial price increase (tariff) on British made steam engines?

Would the economies of scale give them a better advantage than a 150% price increase for a British engine?

That wages paid vs slave labor can result in a better and more efficient workforce, right?

The Book "Southern Wealth and Northern Profit" has a very interesting chapter on the beginnings of feudalism and slavery in Europe, and it goes on to tell how the feudal lords learned they could get more out of free men than they could from serfs. I think it goes into some detail regarding skilled craftsman and how they were far more capable as free men.

The book explains this was the primary reason why European aristocracy allowed serfdom to wither away.

Written by a Northerner.

https://books.google.com/books/about/Southern_Wealth_and_Northern_Profits_as.html?id=rUcWAAAAYAAJ

[rockrr]

That not everything is a conspiracy, right?

To trolls EVERYTHING is fodder for The Grand Conspiracy...