This makes no sense whatsoever. If I tell you that you must fire your employees

This makes no sense whatsoever.
If I tell you that you must fire your employees tomorrow, then borrow the money to replace them with robots, then rebuild your proceddures processes and supply and distribution chains you will bankrupt within weeks.
My analysis is correct.
That’s what we get for studying economics and why you can’t understand the simplicity of the incentives of the south.
It’s not that they wanted to preserve slavery it’s because they had no means of exiting it and industrializing as the north already had without the capital to do so and the time to do it.

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