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According to what I heard from a writer, the idea that the British abolished slavery out of morality or Bible verses is a total fairy tale. It was entirely about sheer terror and cold, ruthless math!

When slave rebellions in Haiti and Jamaica spiraled out of control and white masters started getting their heads chopped off and skins peeled, the empire's throne shook. Demographics reached a point where the slave population vastly outnumbered the masters; every night, sleep was ruined by the stress of "will our throats be slit tonight?" So the real issue wasn't enlightenment, it was survival.

And of course, there's the financial side of it: A slave is a capital asset. If they get sick, die, or perish in a revolt, all your money goes down the drain. Between feeding, housing, keeping them under lock and key, and patrolling them, security costs completely eclipsed the profits. With the Industrial Revolution on the doorstep, the cheap wage-labor model—which didn't rebel, didn't revolt, and could just be fired when sick—forced the clumsy, expensive machinery of slavery into the history books. Underneath the veneer of civilization, it was always just fear and a calculator!

They used to say if you want to save money, eat at home. That's what I will be doing today: making a simple meal... ginger fried rice with chicken. But how much is it really saving me? Let's take a look, shall we?

Let's get the ingredients.

We will start with the 1 pound, 2 ounces frozen sticky rice for $5.29 (used to be $5 even a few weeks ago)

Then the off-brand canned chicken for $4 (because let's be honest, $3.99 is REALLY $4 in disguise)

Then we will grab a small bottle of ginger dressing for $5 (again, $4.99 is really $5 in disguise)

So all in all, around a pound of made-from-home fried rice with chicken is $15!

I mean, yeah, you can say it feeds 2 people, but a supposed "cheaper" rice meal with canned meat at home is $15. Think about that! Imagine if I were to have purchased fresh chicken from the meat section. Imagine if this were a more elaborate meal, how much more would that cost?