Christopher Brown
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first heard Jan 2026
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Because when we talk about industrialization, you're talking about capital investment, but you're also about increasing the scale of production, right?
And the question of scale of production is closely related to the size of the markets you have to sell in.
And those markets are in part about the success of the colonies that are overseas, since those are essentially…
you know, closed markets, captive markets, not to mention whatever you can do to sort of push those commodities, those manufactured goods into other overseas markets.
So, you know, I mean, it's such a complicated question.
I just, you know, the truth lies somewhere between the Industrial Revolution was completely independent of the overseas slaving economy, and it was entirely dependent on it.
No, I haven't seen this.
Wow, okay.
Go for it.
I think that is...
I think it's demonstrably untrue.
And I also think, well, let me put it this way.
It might be true in some instances, but it's certainly not, I would not describe it as some universal law of values in human civilization.
I mean, look, I mean, this is not my field or my subject, but as I understand it, you know, wealth, art, creativity, Weimar Germany,
Yeah.
I mean, people had, you know, there are all kinds of counterexamples.
And I would also just say the wealthiest nations in Europe in the 18th century were deeply committed to slavery.
Slavery has been a producer of wealth, and slaveholding societies have produced wealth.
artistic marvels in many instances.
You know,
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