As long as you have cheap labor (in the form of slaves), the economic incentive to invent labor-saving devices is much smaller.
It’s no accident that the industrial revolution only came after slavery (and it’s ugly cousin, serfdom) was abolished.
As long as you have cheap labor (in the form of slaves), the economic incentive to invent labor-saving devices is much smaller.
It’s no accident that the industrial revolution only came after slavery (and it’s ugly cousin, serfdom) was abolished.