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Sigh. You question these people's wisdom because they are "white male slave owners". Did you ever think that because they were confronted with the reality of

Sigh. You question these people's wisdom because they are "white male slave owners". Did you ever think that because they were confronted with the reality of slavery they were much much more attuned to the issues of human rights than say a tech worker in our society who doesn't notice that almost everything they use and touch was made by slaves? Who built that iphone? Sewed your clothes? Who mined the cobalt which allows your lithium batteries? And even in the west, slave labor hasn't gone away. We just hide it in private prisons or "illegal" immigrants. We are much better at tech than the founding fathers, but I have no evidence that we are any better at moral and/or political philosophy (and quite a bit of evidence against).

rbanffy 5y ago
> because they were confronted with the reality of slavery they were much much more attuned to the issues of human rights than say a tech worker in our society I don’t think there is much evidence for that. > And even in the west, slave labor hasn't gone away. We just hide it in private prisons or "illegal" immigrants. More than that, we have Capitalism, that allows poor people to compete against each other about where is the point where one is too poor to have a job.