Owlish Mutterings

The Exit

Via Instapundit, comes this interesting post. I have often heard that free societies produce more than slave societies. The post would make the claim that it wasn't true until a point near the industrial revolution, which led to ... Oh just read the post. It's interesting in a What IF? kind of way- what if America had been colonized by a slave society instead of the seeds of a free one.

While you're at it, read this post on why the industrial revolution was a good thing, and corporations arn't evil.