Kulturkampf

[Eric Cartman]

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Slaves didn't mass produce goods, they farmed the inputs for them. The industrial revolution is what made cotton plantations financially viable, the plantations in America mostly didn't bother with cotton before then. This should be fairly obvious as the supply (cotton) would have massively exceeded the demand (the ability of factories to process it), driving the price down severely. After the productive capacity increased the demand increase would boost the price convincing the plantation owners to go into cotton. This same process is also what would make slavery non-financially viable shortly thereafter as the price of free labor undercut the value of holding slaves. (Why did the slave holders agree to ban the international slave trade? It increased the value of their assets by monopolizing the supply.) Thanks reading across texts!

Fact check:
China has singlehandedly produced more CO2 emissions over the last decade than the UK has over its entire history to date including the entirety of the industrial revolution where we were just literally fucking rolling coal straight into the atmos