[Non-Sequitur]

I got your point, sport. Now tell me who picked the cotton during those seventy years.

Hired labor. So if more expensive hired help didn't speed up the mechanization what would?

[davisfh]

"Hired labor. So if more expensive hired help didn't speed up the mechanization what would?"

And, who do you think they hired? And was it more expensive? Did the hired help require feeding and clothing?