Gotta start them off young

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Gotta start them off young - Lemmy.World

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Ye the world was a peaceful place before capitalism, there were no wars, no slaves and no …

checks history books

Oh no

Oh no no no no

Scale. It’s about scale and centralization. Sure there were slaves but capitalism made more than ever in human history. Sure there were wars but capitalism made them bigger and further away from the rich nations committing them’s population.

It’s about scale. It’s like comparing a single thief to a crime syndicate of organized thieves and saying “well there has always been thieving”

Yes. But never with so much damage.

Scale. It’s about scale and centralization. Sure there were slaves but capitalism made more than ever in human history.

Depends on who you ask, and when, I guess. For instance, if you asked one of the nations conquered by the Mongols, they would’ve said that empire was the largest enslaver in history.

The Mongol Empire established a massive international slave trade founded upon war captives enslaved during the Mongol conquests, which were distributed by market demand around the empire via a network of slave markets connected through the cities of the empire.

Slave trade in the Mongol Empire - Wikipedia