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Because usually the only people who were relieved enough from the tedium of slavery had enough free time and mental sanity to be a petulant faggot trying to find out what makes the universe's butthole tingle. Science and technology has always been richfags wheelhouse by simple virtue of them having the means to do so. No slave getting his ass beat to pick crops or cotton ever thinks about matter or poetry for that matter, pun intended.