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> Monopolies and labor abuses were mostly in check Really? Transatlantic slavery by far the biggest labour abuse, then the company towns, then Standard Oil whi

> Monopolies and labor abuses were mostly in check Really? Transatlantic slavery by far the biggest labour abuse, then the company towns, then Standard Oil which was allowed to run amok for 30 years then broken up (which then consolidated into ExxonMobil and Chevron again). These are just off the top of my head. The US from my point of view has been a puritanical, borderline genocidal, enslaving, cowardly and hypocritical, and yet nosy entity that discarded its inconvenient founding and history. Its success I daresay has been entirely contingent on its remoteness from the rest of humanity (which fed into its exceptionalism narrative), and comparatively sparse population. By many measures the Roman and British empires were 'more successful'.

dragonwriter 1y ago
> The US from my point of view has been a puritanical, borderline genocidal "Borderline"?
Isamu 1y ago
>By many measures the Roman and British empires were 'more successful'. With the Roman Empire you are overlooking their slavery, genocide, etc, most of your critique applies. Britain at least outlawed slavery at home, but not in territories abroad, hence the slavery in the Americas and elsewhere
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- dragonwriter 1y ago
  > Britain at least outlawed slavery at home, but not in territories abroad But...it didn't. I mean, not if "at home" means "throughout Britain" rather than "only in England and Wales".