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Originally Posted by HarveyJ
Then there's also the sad fact that, from a historical basis, America's economy actually relies on 20% of the work force to be slaves. I know it's a horrible thing to say, but I get the feeling if you compared current minimum wages against what black slaves on plantations got, the economic value of the slaves' clothes, board & feed might actually be more than the equivalent of today's minimum wage.
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Coming from a family that would be in that 20%, I completely fucking agree.