Southern plantation owners had less motivation to invest in modern farm machinery since they owned slaves, so Southern agriculture remained more dependent on labor, which hindered progress and economic growth as the North became more mechanized and productive.
It's funny that we keep being told about how automation is so necessary because humans are so inefficient, yet so few apply that logic to American slavery.
>Southern plantation owners had less motivation to invest in modern farm machinery since they owned slaves, so Southern agriculture remained more dependent on labor, which hindered progress and economic growth as the North became more mechanized and productive.
It's funny that we keep being told about how automation is so necessary because humans are so inefficient, yet so few apply that logic to American slavery.
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