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The relationship between capitalism and slavery is one of the keys to understanding the modern world War capitalism in early 19th century driving forceful robbery of Native American land and forceful enslavement of Africans, enabled to industrialize American produce & empowered Europe and parts of America to diverge economically and become much richer than the rest of the world. In that time of the great divergence, Europe and parts of America, empowered by slavery and robbery, leaped forward to become the new owners of the material world. When you look onto the world of today, don't be fooled to think that the economic system was shaped and built on the noble rule of law, property rights and free trade. It wasn't. Our current global economic system was built on the blood of slavery, coerced work, oppression, violence and confiscation of personal liberties and private land.
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Native Americans were hoarded and driven off their lands by the millions, Africans were shipped like stock by the millions to slave for the riches of the new global landlords. Just as so, our current web is based on master-slave architecture, cynically called server-client. We should realize that in the current web there is no separating the master from the server and no separating the client from the slave. Just as in the times of Genesis of our economic system, when humans were enslaved & auctioned as stock, so too now we're being hoarded by the masses into centralized information feeding farms, our attention and our selves being auctioned by private landlords to the highest bidders
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Capitalism has, for better and worse, led us to vastly increase both our productivity and our consumption. Without a great appetite to consume, there can be no markets for industry to grow on. Increased consumption leads to greater property, leading to fatter bodies, fatter minds & fatter egos. We consume ourselves to death, while the habitat on which we ourselves grow is limited to a tiny rock circling a small star in an infinite universe. There is a tight bond between capitalism, consumption and slavery, leading the followers to decadent obesity of minds, egos and souls. Slavery has introduced us to the culture of profiting from exploitation. The prevailing will to maximize profits, grow at all costs with no consideration to our environment, human or otherwise natural, to give the least and exploit the most. Slavery still exists everywhere.
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