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If productivity is your metric for human happiness and progress, then I'm guessing its all been downhill since they freed the slaves.

Productivity , one amongst many is certainly a criteria.

Technically speaking, slavery wasn't the most productive either.

The broader point is laid out in the initial detailed response.

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