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Riches of America can be traced back to some Europeans getting lot of land by killing all the natives and then getting slaves as cheap labour.
by blackoil 3y ago
Riches of America can be traced back to some Europeans getting lot of land by killing all the natives and then getting slaves as cheap labour.
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- zmgsabst 3y agoMining in the US West wasn’t done by slave labor. And conquest coupled with slaving their rivals is what powered most indigenous tribes, too! In fact, essentially every human society of the time or before. Weird that outrage is selectively applied.
- blackoil 3y agoI was replying to original comment claiming that people commenting out here are hypocritical because they all have benefitted from the mining. My comment implies that not all things that our ancestors do that have made our life what it is today are not ethical/legal today.