This iss an odd claim

shit like the cotton gin was a thing

which deliberately ramped up slavery in the us

I really like anecdotal evidence

Tha'ts not even relevant period

@Deleted User you're running away from the point again.

if anything automation created a greater demand for slavery

My town, like many Rustbelt/"Redneck" towns, have a problem with meth selling and producing

what

????????

Slavery is immoral

HUh?

@Anarchist-Communist Am I?

how

@Anarchist-Communist Tell me how.

@Deleted User yes you are.

My argument is that the economy of the North, which was based on manufacturing and thus automation, was dependent on the agricultural economy of the South which produced in demand textiles via slave labor.

@Anarchist-Communist Tell me how then.

@Deleted User Why should I? You're sea-lioning again, fuck you. I already proved you wrong.

@Deleted User

@Deleted User If I am correct, didn't automation BOOST slavery?

yes it did

I said that

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_gin

the cotton gin is a fucking thing

That's such a shit argument bro

no it isn't

its directly linked to an increase in slaves

When you have the means of automation artificially raised

read the article

you have far less incentive to innovate

@Anarchist-Communist So you are giving up all logic, and are just saying "FUCK YOU I WIN!" Like a child? Geez man, when you act like that, I can only assume you have autism.

this is basic historical materialism

Production in the North increased on the eve of the Civil war and cotton prices rose drastically. Where is the slow down you speak of? And decreased competition? Where?

@Deleted User So you're confusion lies in misunderstanding

The slowdown is not even seeable

"Because of its inadvertent effect on American slavery, and on its ensuring that the South's economy developed in the direction of plantation-based agriculture (while encouraging the growth of the textile industry elsewhere, such as in the North), the invention of the cotton gin is frequently cited as one of the indirect causes of the American Civil War."

pulled right from the fucking article

In fact if it was seeable

iot would'nt exist