I have been searching for information on the half scale and small scale railroads used in the Cadillac area that were used to extract logs from the forests in the early years.
This illustrates the basic difference between capitalism and communism. In capitalism the men are provided with the tools to maximize their output, decent dormitories and adequate, quality food. During the exact same time these scenes were being shot men who weren't shot were sentenced to slave labor in a camp in the Gulag system, provided only the most rudimentary of tools and often worked to death to accomplish the same output of raw materials. The workers in a capitalist system may not have been highly paid but they had better food, tools and living conditions compared to many in the Workers Paradise. Does someone have a reference to compare the cost on a per board foot basis what this lumber cost Ford to Gulag produced lumber? The Gulags were surely horribly inefficient but did the slave labor and low overhead result in cheaper lumber?
