• PP_BOY_@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Upvoted solely because this is the sort of unhinged comment that I missed about the old internet

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      9 months ago

      Even as a slave, the cost of a human work is magnitudes above the cost of using a pump with petrol. A slave may be able to output ~1kWh per day, that’s mostly a few 10s of cents anywhere. Can you feed anyone on that?