Sure, doing this calculation right would require a great deal more research. Certainly, my prior would be that freeing a slave would result in a longer life expectancy, but I would not expect the gap between slave and free to instantaneously close.
I just wanted to point out that the large slave/free life expectancy gap he was presenting can work against him- and as a result he wasn’t “shutting up and multiplying” correctly, which should undermine the weight of the sarcasm at the end of his post.
Sure, doing this calculation right would require a great deal more research. Certainly, my prior would be that freeing a slave would result in a longer life expectancy, but I would not expect the gap between slave and free to instantaneously close.
I just wanted to point out that the large slave/free life expectancy gap he was presenting can work against him- and as a result he wasn’t “shutting up and multiplying” correctly, which should undermine the weight of the sarcasm at the end of his post.