Answer:When there is slavery - cheap, gratis and easily coercible work force around and the price of labour is nil - there is no incentive to invent any kind of industry. This is the reason why the Islamic world never invented anything worthwhile and why the Industrial Revolution did not happen in the Islamic world, and why the Persian envoys considered windmills as “folly” - they had enough slaves to grind the quern-stones.
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