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To: one_less who wrote (239749)	8/23/2007 1:52:02 AM
From: c.hinton	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

perhaps one cans say that quality of life is relative.......can it be argued that people are more happy today than 100 years ago....is the world a less brutal place.....is some one who is paid 3 dollar a day and has no passport, or work permit better off than a slave ? ucatlas.ucsc.edu "better a slave in england than a free man anywhere else" a slave often represented a major capital investment.....it was something to be looked after.....like a horse or a valuble hunting dog.....food and shelter were supplied as a matter of corse if one wanted to protect ones investment. naturally if slaves were cheap and abundant they could be treated like paper tissues...... a bit like cheap manual laborers.jmho