Oddbean new post about login | logout @b05df304 @🌲-alist Yes the Civil War was, like most wars, a battle between two forms of exploitation. The North practiced the modern interest and debt serfdom method, while the South took the old fashioned approach. The Northern approach made better use of technology. As far as I can tell there have been very few wars with an actual good guy involved, and those few had the good guy on defense. At best you have a bad guy versus a really horrible guy.