Seems like these arguments were the same ones the South used to justify slavery.
I’m just sayin...
I was just thinking the same thing.
The slavery argument is nonsense.
Just go back to the 40’s and 50’s.
Tenant farmers, share croppers, migrant farmers,underpaid mine workers were the norm.
They owed the landlord or ‘company’ more money than they made.
They were captive and Americans.
These farm workers send most of their money back to Mexico where it goes a long way.
They can walk off the job any time they want and seek other employment. Or go back home where they could make $50/mo.
Farming is a sunrise ( actually you start before sunrise) to sunset job.
That’s the way it is.
There was probably a headline once that read U.S. Cotten Farmers Face Grim Harvests as Slavery Ends. The farmers were then forced to use mechanical harvesting. Through the mother of invention and the application of technology their productivity went up and the price of cotton went down.
There were some ambitious internet projects to put very old daily newspapers online. I wonder what happened? The cost of the intellectual property is nothing. I bet it turned out the old newspapers were too politically incorrect for today's standards, and have been effectively banned by leftist political forces. It's too bad, history repeats itself over and over.