JamishT wrote:aviel wrote: An army premised on the philosophy that technology is bad is probably not going to be an effective army.
Tell that to the Amish Mafia.
Yeah, I bet they ain't nuthing to... mess with.
JamishT wrote:aviel wrote: An army premised on the philosophy that technology is bad is probably not going to be an effective army.
Tell that to the Amish Mafia.
aviel wrote:
Anyway, not really surprising that the Canuts surrendered. An army premised on the philosophy that technology is bad is probably not going to be an effective army.
JamishT wrote:Tell that to the Amish Mafia.
Terry Pratchett wrote:The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Terry Pratchett wrote:The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Andropov4 wrote:According to this paper, the average price of a slave in 19th century America was anywhere from $225 in 1807 to $800 in 1861, or $12,000 to $176,000 in today's money. And these prices appear to have been an excellent investment for much of the period; the estimated average return on a slave ranged from a low of roughly $45,000 to $135,000. That article is full of interesting data- for instance, in 1850, the average price of a slave was the same as that of a house. Also, nearly half the wealth in the South was tied up in slaves from 1850-1860.
In any case, the average cost of a slave for the whole period seems to have been roughly $20,000.
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