Slaves don’t earn wages to buy products. The slave-owners have to spend funds to feed, house them etc.

But it was really more about creating consumer markets. There is no capitalism without vast consumer markets for mass produced goods.

Mercantile slavery produced less, more artisanal goods, for a very small class of people (aristocracy and nascent bourgeoisie).

And it wasn’t possible to expand the consumer markets without creating a new class of people who had an income to spend on commodities.

This is extremely simplified, but it’s the main interpretation for the end of slavery. Like, when we study the Industrial Revolution, the British empire and the end of slavery in school, it’s always under that lens, of creating new consumer markets.

But just to make it clear, slavery is still lucrative, to this day. Which is why we have more slaves in absolute numbers now than at any other point in history. But it can’t be the main relation of production, because capitalism depends on mass consumption by masses of people. So slavery can only ever exist as a marginal system.

It was more profitable for the nascent capitalist class to have a wage workers than slaves, it’s just that.

Idgaf, death to America

“Frame” the US Army…? Bro the great satan doesn’t need any framing, its sins are dripping from its fangs and claws.

I didn’t claim anything tho…?

I was being pedantic. There is no such thing as Stalinism, that article is a joke. Stalin was just a Marxist Leninist.

Lol like that makes any difference?

What’s Stalinism 🤔

The real rich don’t pay any income tax tho? Not sure what you mean. Sure the high-income developers and engineers and lawyers etc. would become a richer, but they are not the rich, are they? The owners of the businesses they work at are. And they don’t pay income taxes.

https://youtu.be/31e0RcImReY?si=18IbWnHxRGAfticv

From the title it might not sound super related, but she goes super in depth on how these intelligence researches usually are extremely problematic. As in literally telling women that women did better in these tests made them perform as well or better than men in typically “male intelligence areas”. We don’t really understand intelligence, and how it develops, and how to measure it.

So ascribing higher or lower intelligence in certain fields to certain groups just doesn’t work. Irregardless for how statistically sound it might be. We just don’t understand the parameters around it well enough to control for it.

After seeing the most recent münecat video I don’t believe research like this anymore.

Yeah we made a huge mistake being born wrong 😕

That does make intuitive sense, but archeology shows otherwise. There was a much bigger diversity of gender roles and relationship structures/child rearing systems, including in agricultural societies.

The modern almost universal ideal of romantic monogamous nuclear relationships was born from romantic (as in the movement) puritan petit bourgeois ideals in the 19th century.

Working class women during the medieval age for example, worked and lived outside the home, had affairs etc. This changed around the 18th century with the hegemony of the bourgeoisie and working class mirroring of their ideals.

Basically while it’s true that patriarchal strictly dichotomous societies existed for as long as we can tell, And that they have prevailed and “won out”. But doesn’t mean they are the norm for humanity. Their universality is extremely recent.

Just a small correction: most people look at relationships in terms of some very rigid ideals that were set a couple centuries ago at most.

Hey I’m one of the others too! I’ll be the dude growing potatoes and playing guitar for the kids.

We only need one Sheldon. A communist Sheldon. Man someone like Marx lol. But also AI technology to keep them alive forever… which is a doozy.

We also do need scientists and engineers to keep the technology for the necessary productivity for communism alive, but not everyone needs to be that.

You can be one of the other people, y’know who grows food and guards the fence, and takes care of kids etc.

Ah yeah for sure. Life will survive, and the necessary conditions for capitalism will be long gone. But also the necessary conditions for non-primitive communism. So idk.

Maybe a good project for communists is to build some Foundation like shit…

Just play as Sweden to get the hang of things 🤷‍♂️

But people LOOK like they can kill. They are no fuzzy and cuddly…

Inshallah. Arrest all of them!