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Old 09-15-2003, 09:16 PM   #8
Torrere
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I don't like people who live forever.

The cotton gin actually created jobs. Picking cotton was becoming very unprofitable, and with Whitney's cotton gin it became profitable again, thus creating a lot of jobs. Granted, they weren't getting money for their work, but they were still working!
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