Modern American Slaveowners

According to some back-of-envelope calculations, the USA annually expends 93 megawatt hours for every man, woman, and child, which is the equivalent of each citizen having 186 human slaves toiling away at 12-hour shifts.  In the old days, if you wanted a breeze, you had a slave wave a fan over you.  Now we use electricity.  Aren't modern conveniences grand?

Most plastics are made from oil, and are only cheaper than wood and metal because oil is cheap.  But it won't be cheap much longer!  We might be seeing a resurgence of coopers and metalsmiths in the next generation, as plastics become restricted to rich men's toys only.  Hopefully we won't be going back to horses and buggies—the streets were full of horseshit back then.