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Slavery and Industrialization




What if we became a machine loving industrialized society because slavery ended?
Slave masters got accustomed to doing no work and gaining massive returns due to slavery and exploitation. When it became illegal to have slaves, they looked to machines to output the same amounts of their product, and that's how we became the crazy production technology loving people we are today.


They also turned to children to do the work…







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