(09-03-2022, 10:30 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(09-03-2022, 09:40 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Employed how, Mikey? That's an important thing for you to know. In what fields? They weren't working industrialized jobs. 

The value of doubling your workforce isn't in more workers, dummy. It's in increasing the supply of available workers which drives down wages. They were able to get cheaper labor because the demand for work became higher because the pool of available workers was larger.

I guess textile mills don't count as industrial to you? Or bakeries?

As for doubling the workforce, I guess we agree, sort of, we're just using the word differently.  They were trying to double their supply of workers, yes.  The way you said it made it sound like they were actually doubling the number of people they would hire.