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It took almost five thousand years to stop openly owning other human beings (and people still do it with different names today, but at least we don't condone it
by zanny 11y ago
It took almost five thousand years to stop openly owning other human beings (and people still do it with different names today, but at least we don't condone it anymore).
Basic income is inevitable in any society that maintains a capitalist market economy post-scarcity. If the US wants to destroy itself by being backwards (cough, healthcare, measurement units, date format, DST, national holidays, PTO, regressive welfare, etc) it cannot hold the rest of the world back forever.
- Retra 11y agoMeasurement units? You realize that units are arbitrary, right?
- Lawtonfogle 11y ago>It took almost five thousand years to stop openly owning other human beings (and people still do it with different names today, but at least we don't condone it anymore). In the US it never stopped. It merely became only the right of corporations and the state via prisons. Maybe it stopped in other countries, but how is that different than saying it stopped at the first civilization that banned slavery?