“slavery disincentivized Rome from mechanical innovation”– Brad This is correct

—“slavery disincentivized Rome from mechanical innovation”– Brad
This is correct. The tech was there. But human labor was too cheap. Until the Justinian plague and the fall of Rome. Then it wasn’t Cheap. And when it wasn’t cheap it cause de-urbanization, wealth collapse, institutional collapse and feudalism and serfdom for survival. Once the Hansa restored trade to northern Europe, Aristotle’s works returned from the middle ease, the printing press was created, and the ottomans conquered and closed the port of Byzantium, it was only a little time under the age of sail before steam power and all that resulted.

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