[Hunterite]

Productivity increases make goods cheaper.

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Cheap labor makes goods slightly cheaper, the business owners mark up the price and reap in enormous profits off the backs of the slaves.

Productivity stagnates under slavery.

[County Agent Hank Kimball]

"Cheap labor makes goods slightly cheaper, the business owners mark up the price and reap in enormous profits off the backs of the slaves.

Productivity stagnates under slavery."

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You are perfectly entitled to be a socialist, but that's what you are. You believe the government should have a role in setting wages or determining industrial policy. That's not compatible with economic liberty. Maybe you would be more comfortable spouting class warfare bromides on DU?

Hank