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The northern model in which workers are free to seek jobs and employers are free to hire, which Jiang treats as more efficient than slave labor.
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Free labor
The northern model in which workers are free to seek jobs and employers are free to hire, which Jiang treats as more efficient than slave labor.
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diagnosis
He frames the Civil War as a clash between the Northern free-labor game and the Southern slave-labor system, with slavery corrupting the game's openness, fairness, and clarity.
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Jiang contrasts agricultural slave labor with industrial free labor, arguing that industry needs differentiated skills and markets while agriculture relies on coerced field labor.
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"...the north played the game okay and so we believe in free labor the south was its own independent economic system that focused on..."
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"...different economic framework. With agriculture, you need a lot of slave labor."
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"...have agriculture, you have to bring actually a lot of slave labor from Africa. But, if your focus is in industry, you don't want..."
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"Right? So, free labor just allows for more economic activity, and therefore, more wealth generation in society. All right? So, these are two competing..."
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"...and culture or society were different. So the North believed in free labor, meaning that you were free to do any job you want..."
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"...And of course, the North won, because the North focused on free labor. So that meant that there were more people in the North,..."
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"...Because elderly people are afraid of criminals. And also, prisoners are free labor. Isn't that great? Oh! And one more thing. War after war..."
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"...in a village. Right? And the reason why is kids are free labor. So, you're incentivized to have as many children as possible. Okay...."
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