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Originally posted by papichulo
Actually, they always had 'outside' help.
Athenians had slaves
Brits had Indian slave workers and Chinese coolies and African slaves
Americans built the South (and through its financing) the American Industrial revolution off the back of African slaves
The Southwest was built on cheap Mexican labor.
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Very insulting and ignorant post you moron. The protestant work ethic is still alive and well today, and European men and women built their nations and slaves (many of whom where from other European nations at many points in time) played a rather trivial role. At the turn of the industrial revolution British men would work demanding hours in VERY menial jobs, merely to die at the age of 30 or 40 at best due to the poising toxins encounted from this line of work. Yet day after day they would work demanding hours for very little pay. This was not a few men, but whole generations, and such things where witnessed all across Europe. Slaves played a rather trivial role, when compared to the role that Europeans played themselves.