RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil?
June 24, 2015 at 3:35 pm
(This post was last modified: June 24, 2015 at 3:48 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 24, 2015 at 2:48 pm)Won2blv Wrote:(June 24, 2015 at 2:42 pm)Rhythm Wrote: You imagine that they (early ag societies) had less free time than we do now, less discretionary wealth (regardless of opportunity to spend it), but this isn't -actually- true.
Even if they had free time and little bit of coin in their pouch, its not like they could pop on down to Sears or take a weekend off to visit stonehenge. Planet money podcast had an interesting piece about the history of light. 4,000 years ago a days wages got you 10 minutes of light. 100 years ago a days wages got you 5 hours of light. Today a days wages gets you 20000 hours of light. The point I am trying to make is that we live in unprecedented times. Where we're at today compared to just 100 years ago is amazing and I do think it skews our understanding of the past
That it buys more light now is an effect of lower skilled, lower wage-slaves producing that light.....I guess that escaped you? The relative worth and wealth of people as set against others is, essentially, static. If you can buy more, so can everyone else, that you are wealthier is an illusion, a comforting one, but an illusion nevertheless. I;m a "wealthy planter" - I know that you work for me....you, apparently, don't. Good.....I hope it stays that way. My children will need cheap labor, as I do. People flipping burgers work harder than me -you work harder than me-, they put more in and get less out..meanwhile I sit on my ass, drinking whiskey and posting in atheist forums, working, on average, 140 hrs -a year- for a salary orders of magnitude larger than those who "voluntarily" agree to fiefdom by another name....and I'm one of the nice guys.........
Unprecedented times my ass, I'm perfectly comfortable in these times, because I see that they are no change from the times of my forebearers who placed me where I'm at and kept you where you -are-...if they were "unprecedented times"......I'd be worried......do I seem worried...to you?
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