Re: Did you know you can buy land on the moon?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Henry Spencer) wrote:

> The way Southern aristocrats treated their slaves was much closer to the
> way Northern factory owners treated their machinery -- e.g., buying and
> selling it whenever convenient -- than to the way European aristocrats
> (usually) treated their vassals.

It's also very similar to how Northern factory owners treated their 
usually-poor, usually-uneducated, and often-immigrant employees, with 
the exception being that the employees were paid (usually not very 
highly) and were nominally free to leave employment.

-- 
Herb Schaltegger, B.S., J.D.
Reformed Aerospace Engineer
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