Why Lumon was founded

Lumon was founded in 1865. What else happened in 1865? Slavery was abolished. This Kier mf was so pissed slave labor was outlawed he invented a way for it to live on. Packaged as “humane” because outties don’t have to deal with laboring through a workday. But innies are slaves. Helena calls her own innie an “animal” that tried to kill her. Lumon views innies as so separate from outties they’re basically a different species. Pretty familiar rhetoric as far as narratives in defense of slavery. Sub-human, animalistic, conniving, dangerous.

Edit: Cobel invented the chips, but from what we saw in Sweet Vitriol, I believe ether was the original attempt at severance and that obviously didn’t work out so well.