Patrick Byrne

Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne

@econ_robinson You get the keys to a couple of identical jeeps. You will own one the rest of your life, the other, you turn the keys back in 5 years. Which will you treat more harshly? So it was with indentured servants. The idea was for them to end their contract at the point of starvation. — PolitiTweet.org

Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne

@Lawrence3134 @econ_robinson Funny. No, I think the practice began when the Cromwell was clearing Ireland. (“To Hell or Connaught!”) I vaguely recall they sent about 300,000 Irish slaves to the colonies. But then it evolved into indentured servitude in the next century. So people emerged or they died within. — PolitiTweet.org