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> Country B realizes they can manage themselves. That's a thing we were taught in "Civic Culture" in grade 5 -- that slaves can become masters through hard wor
by raducu 2y ago
> Country B realizes they can manage themselves.
That's a thing we were taught in "Civic Culture" in grade 5 -- that slaves can become masters through hard work and making the master dependent on them.
But now I see it more in a figurative way, because it rarely happens with actual slaves, but in a more metaphorical way, it certainly can happen.
- sawaali 2y agoIt did happen in the Muslim world. There are "slave" dynasties in many parts of that world (Egypt, India) which were robust dynasties borne out of freed slaves.
- auggierose 2y agoDenzel also delivers this lesson in Gladiator 2.