Josh's Site (www.joshbeckman.org) home / notes / the-cotton-gin-a-canonical-example-of-automation-perversel The cotton gin, a canonical example of automation, perversely increased the demand for slave labor because it made cotton growing so much more profitable. Josh Beckman Reference 13.01 Agriculture 14.01 Automation 15.01 Machines 63.04 Side-effects A Year of New Avenues 2022, December 12 Edit Comment/Reply via email Widgets Network Graph Legend Insight This widget generates “insights” about a post - you can read about how it works. Generating Keyboard Shortcuts Key Action o Source e Edit i Insight r Random s or / Search Close www.joshbeckman.org/notes/431542858