• chuckleslord@lemmy.world
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    Industrialized the refinement of cotton

    Can’t industrialize the harvesting of cotton

    Surely increasing the demand for raw cotton beyond the current supply of raw cotton will reduce the amount of humans used to make cotton, right? R…right?

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      "I made a calculated economic decision

      but man am I bad at economics" - Eli Whitney, Probably