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>I stopped reading here. But he's right; I don't know if I would call it colonialist, but you are applying your current perspective of how the poor lives to a
by nemothekid 4y ago
>I stopped reading here.
But he's right; I don't know if I would call it colonialist, but you are applying your current perspective of how the poor lives to a culture extremely far removed from our own. I think our current situation of extremely disproportional wealth is a new phenomenon and we should be careful in blindly applying our current viewpoints backwards. India has always been an extremely fertile and arable continent; it isn't far fatched that being massaged in oil could have been widespread.
- badpun 4y agoFertile and arable lands just lead to more population density, they don’t improve living standards.
- Max-q 4y ago> I think our current situation of extremely disproportional wealth is a new phenomenon Isn’t it more an old phenomenon coming back? All over Europe you had the kings, which were very rich, under them a rich upper class with big houses and staff, tradesmen as the middle class and peasants doing all the work living in extreme poverty.
- eru 4y ago> [...] tradesmen as the middle class and peasants doing all the work living in extreme poverty. That's a weird view. (Urban) tradesmen were sort-of next to peasants, not above them. And many parts of Europe had quite wealthy peasants during many periods.
- pedrosorio 4y ago> it isn't far fatched that being massaged in oil could have been widespread someone was doing the massaging, and it wasn't the same people who were being massaged