(February 13, 2014 at 8:17 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Slavery, as an economic model, would never have survived the industrial revolution (save for some vestigal - house slave - ) type of thing. Slaves were expensive to buy, expensive to maintain, and the bastards had the annoying tendency to die which negated the investment.
How much easier did the fucking capitalist factory managers in the northern cities have it? Go down to the docks and meet the ships coming in filled with the Irish. Take your choice, pay them a pittance, and if they got sick or died they were infinitely replaceable. There was no investment in the Irish. They were expendable. That's the model the scumbags would like to have back.
Don't forget the Chinese railroad workers. The cycle does continue to some degree with Mexican immigrants. Poor saps.
I have to say this, Tara, if you have been out of work that long, it's good at least that you have a job. That must be something of a bright side. I mean, food is nice, so congrats on that.
