
Originally Posted by
Ibn-Khaldun
You forget that slaves can not choose a job for themselves! Also, you forget that if those 10 men could work with those machines then 90 slaves will just stay idle and idle slaves might start thinking about freedom. But slaves who think about freedom are dangerous. So, if I would be given the choice back then I would use 100 slaves and make sure they work and don't have time to think rather than using 5 machines and let those slaves run freely around.
Do you understand what kind of social problems this could've caused??? Have you thought what they would've eaten, where they would've lived and so on?? Steam engines back then would've destroyed most of the empires.
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