Capitalism is the root of racism, high key
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I’d love to hear how you reached the conclusion that voluntary exchange and the acceptance of property rights is equivalent in some way to slavery.
...slavery is imo one of the most anti capitalist models. It’s only when the state denies ones rights that one can be considered property by the market.
Johnny Kilroy
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Do you think people volunteer to be homeless or make minimum wage and live paycheck to paycheck?
The American economy has always been based on slavery. From the slaves in the southern colonies who provided the raw materials for the manufacturing middle colonies. The New England colonies made ships to transport the goods and the PEOPLE.
Chattel slavery became the first iteration of capitalism. The way slave owners kept records, identical to today, that had never been done before other than in militaries. The tracking of inventory and supplies, partly to keep track of potential weapons. If a pitchfork was missing that meant someone might be concealing it as a weapon.
Tracking employee performance? Where do you think that came from? A slave was an investment and a certain return was expected. Same as most employees today.
The hierarchy of management? Owner, overseer, then the snitch ass nikka, etc. This was all developed on the plantation.
Slaves received wages. They received room and board, the worst housing and the worst food, same as low wage workers today. Neither seems to have a choice. If they refused, what was the slave’s option? What is the poor person’s option if they refuse to obey?
White sharecroppers fell in line for one simple reason: it could CLEARLY get worse for them. So they accepted their roles and fell in line too.
After the Civil War, when the slaves were freed, many of them went right back to the same plantations for work. Instead of room and board, now some received wages... to pay for their own room and board. And they had to be treated better, although not much better. But what else changed?
It’s no different from any worker law passed today. Minimum wage increase. But it’s still the same. Change the names, owner to employer, slave to employee... it’s still the same.
Laws were put in place to better protect the slaves, I mean, employees. My bad. But for most people, it’s still the same, breh.
Shout out to all those who have managed to rise above this rose colored bullshyt
Oh boy...Do you think people volunteer to be homeless or make minimum wage and live paycheck to paycheck?
The American economy has always been based on slavery. From the slaves in the southern colonies who provided the raw materials for the manufacturing middle colonies. The New England colonies made ships to transport the goods and the PEOPLE.
Chattel slavery became the first iteration of capitalism. The way slave owners kept records, identical to today, that had never been done before other than in militaries. The tracking of inventory and supplies, partly to keep track of potential weapons. If a pitchfork was missing that meant someone might be concealing it as a weapon.
Tracking employee performance? Where do you think that came from? A slave was an investment and a certain return was expected. Same as most employees today.
The hierarchy of management? Owner, overseer, then the snitch ass nikka, etc. This was all developed on the plantation.
Slaves received wages. They received room and board, the worst housing and the worst food, same as low wage workers today. Neither seems to have a choice. If they refused, what was the slave’s option? What is the poor person’s option if they refuse to obey?
White sharecroppers fell in line for one simple reason: it could CLEARLY get worse for them. So they accepted their roles and fell in line too.
After the Civil War, when the slaves were freed, many of them went right back to the same plantations for work. Instead of room and board, now some received wages... to pay for their own room and board. And they had to be treated better, although not much better. But what else changed?
It’s no different from any worker law passed today. Minimum wage increase. But it’s still the same. Change the names, owner to employer, slave to employee... it’s still the same.
Laws were put in place to better protect the slaves, I mean, employees. My bad. But for most people, it’s still the same, breh.
Shout out to all those who have managed to rise above this rose colored bullshyt
You’ve married a bunch of things to capitalism that exist wholly independent of it, and even more concerning is that everything you named predates capitalism.
Mother Nature is oppressive, and capitalism has been, and remains mankind’s best answer.
Thank you for explaining though
Going forward I’d recommend not likening our current system to slavery though its disrespectful to those that endured actual slavery.
Johnny Kilroy
79 points in 1 quarter
Oh boy...
You’ve married a bunch of things to capitalism that exist wholly independent of it, and even more concerning is that everything you named predates capitalism.
Mother Nature is oppressive, and capitalism has been, and remains mankind’s best answer.
Thank you for explaining though
Going forward I’d recommend not likening our current system to slavery though its disrespectful to those that endured actual slavery.
Show me in history where such detailed records of inventory were kept by businesses before chattel slavery in Amerikkka.
You’re mistaking treatment/punishment for the system itself. As I said, it’s like laws made for workers. You can no longer whip your employee, but you can prevent him from feeding his family by firing him. So they still obey out of fear.
Chattel slavery was so horrific that people don’t even realize they’re still slaves today. Mind fukk to the nth degree.
Oh boy...
You’ve married a bunch of things to capitalism that exist wholly independent of it, and even more concerning is that everything you named predates capitalism.
Mother Nature is oppressive, and capitalism has been, and remains mankind’s best answer.
Thank you for explaining though
Going forward I’d recommend not likening our current system to slavery though its disrespectful to those that endured actual slavery.
Imagine being so retarded that you literally say nature is oppressive, and then mention capitalism in a positive light
Ignore the rampant rape of natural resources for profit and the effects on climate, autistic brehs
#lowerlearning
Imagine being so retarded that you literally say nature is oppressive, and then mention capitalism in a positive light
Ignore the rampant rape of natural resources for profit and the effects on climate, autistic brehs
Nothing is more oppressive than nature fam... literally nothing.And
@ you adding random bullsh*t in and claiming it’s being “ignored”.
The concept of capitalism has many debated roots, but fully fledged capitalism is generally thought by scholars to have emerged in Northwestern Europe, specifically Great Britain and the Netherlands, in the 16th century...Show me in history where such detailed records of inventory were kept by businesses before chattel slavery in Amerikkka.
You’re mistaking treatment/punishment for the system itself. As I said, it’s like laws made for workers. You can no longer whip your employee, but you can prevent him from feeding his family by firing him. So they still obey out of fear.
Chattel slavery was so horrific that people don’t even realize they’re still slaves today. Mind fukk to the nth degree.
None of the debated origins are America Chattel slavery(or America period)...
But...
Capitalism doesn’t need defending so that’s neither here nor there.
Johnny Kilroy
79 points in 1 quarter
The concept of capitalism has many debated roots, but fully fledged capitalism is generally thought by scholars to have emerged in Northwestern Europe, specifically Great Britain and the Netherlands, in the 16th century...
None of the debated origins are America Chattel slavery(or America period)...
But...
The concept of a corporation... one person sits on his ass while the others work for a small fraction of the revenue, is from slavery. That is very different from the feudal systems of Europe. And that doesn't even touch on the numbers and how records are now kept.
Feudalism is more in line with socialism, as the land was owned by the governing body, the work was necessary and actually benefitted the people and the wealth was distributed more evenly.
Capitalism is far more ruthless, thanks to its roots in slavery, where the companies are owned by the private sector, and concern for the worker is all but dissipated.
In Amerikkka, they made laws that said you have to treat your workers like humans. Then they said you have to pay them a certain amount. Then they said no discriminating, etc. All they do is try to make things a little more humane for the slaves but the system never changed.
