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Yeah they just faced famine and starvation instead.
by wbsss4412 5y ago
Yeah they just faced famine and starvation instead.
- tharne 5y agoWell, that's how they kept real estate prices down.
- nopenopenopeno 5y agoThat is not wrong.
- wbsss4412 5y agoIt’s not like peasants bought land…
- nopenopenopeno 5y agoHuh? Peasants were extremely resistant to being forced into the factories. The history on this is consistent worldwide. And they faced a lot more detriments in factory labor, including famine and starvation.
- wbsss4412 5y agoWas anyone advocating we adopt the 19th century factory model as our economic system? No one ever claimed that period was great, but you’re somehow arguing that the past for peasants was all roses when it wasn’t.
- mythrwy 5y agoAbuse by feudal lords who essentially owned their lives as well. Where does this romantic idea of poor but free but noble peasants come from? That's not how it worked. Capitalism has it's problems, no argument, but the potential freedom it provided was much better for the average peasant then what was going on before.
- tharne 5y ago> Where does this romantic idea of poor but free but noble peasants come from? It comes from people promoting socialism and communism. They need to lie to justify an oppressive system that only develops through force. That's way you have talk of communist and socialist revolutions - they don't happen on their own because they require the creation of massive bureaucracies that have a monopoly on the use of violence. No one ever talks about a "capitalist revolution", because capitalism evolves organically, as free men and women voluntarily trade goods and services. Sure capitalism has plenty of issues, but thus far it's the least worst system out there.