在1860年代，棉花带的领导人成为了记录史上最巨大的错误计算之一。在应用技术时代的前夕，其中越来越多的工作与更少的人和更少的努力进行，他们为维护动产奴隶制的日子而战 - 是帮派劳动的时代，其依赖于对建造金字塔的人类肌肉的使用依赖。失去的原因在开始战斗之前就丢失了。无法看到世界上发生的事情可能是昂贵的。
(In the 1860s the leaders of the cotton belt made one of the most prodigious miscalculations in recorded history. On the eve of the era of applied technologies, in which more and more work is done with fewer people and less effort, they made war to preserve the day of chattel slavery - the era of gang labor, with its reliance on the same use of human muscles that built the pyramids. The lost cause was lost before it started to fight. Inability to see what is going on in the world can be costly.)