Re: The stock market responsible for the decline in British industry?

On Fri, 25 May 2007 06:57:50 -0700, Mel Rowing wrote:

Slavery? There is no place in slavery within capitalism if only because
it is too damned inefficient. A man works better for the prospect of
personal reward and enhancement rather than mere maintanance. Did the
impetus to end slavery in the US (and ipso facto the Western World
altogether) come from the conservative plantation owners in the south or
the progressive industrialists of the north?

I was referring to the abolition of slavery in the UK (1805) not the yanks
whose civil war wasn't until 1861, seems twisted logic to claim the
plantation owners were anything but capitalists, and as for the so called
progressive industrialists... not a great deal better.

And your assertion there was no place for slavery within capitalism seems
an attempt to gloss over the facts which you should be aware of.

The very fact our business leaders are outsourcing to China is evidence of
the requirement for labour that is cheaper than that available from free
people in our own country.

When we are all working at gun point for next to nothing here in UK, maybe
then the capitalists might invest....
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