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I think one can find, with a little effort, a goal that plantation masters, bankers, and industrialists have in common. It’s not really subtle

• SpicyLemonZest 4y ago
  They certainly have some. Like most people, they tend to aspire to making money, gaining social status, and building fulfilling relationships. Can one find a goal that only these groups have in common? I don't think so. The only commonality between them is that they're conventionally considered powerful in modern American society, and even that part is only true because the terms are understood to refer specifically to powerful members of the underlying group. A counter clerk at Wells Fargo isn't really a "banker" and a farmer who hires a handful of people to help with the harvest isn't really a "plantation owner".