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The opposite is actually true in reality. More people can afford X than ever before, for nearly any X that doesn’t involve directly paying for someone else’s la
by wat10000 3mo ago
The opposite is actually true in reality. More people can afford X than ever before, for nearly any X that doesn’t involve directly paying for someone else’s labor.
- inigyou 3mo agoWhat doesn't involve paying for someone else's labor? You mean things that are pure profit?
- wat10000 3mo agoYou’re missing the word “directly.” More people can afford to buy a toilet than ever before. The same may not be true of affording a plumber to install it.
- Joker_vD 3mo agoDepends on the overarching economical policies. During the British rule, the Indian textile weavers went out of manufacturing business and had to switch to sustenance farming, and then perish during one of the many famines. And the Parliament legally forbade the public relief efforts, such as fundraisers to buy and send corn to the affected regions, explicitly citing the concerns that such efforts would skew the market forces and unbalance the trade.
- superxpro12 3mo agoThat seems less an indictment of economies of scale, and more an indictment of british colonialism