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[–] [email protected] 186 points 1 year ago (76 children)

The bias is justified. The left is correct. Markets don't create wealth without necessarily simultaneously creating poverty

[–] [email protected] 115 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For more information, research "surplus army of labor", "primitive accumulation", and "accumulation by dispossession".

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Primitive accumulation is a bad term. It works if you've read the theory behind it, but otherwise it sounds like someone saving up a bunch of money then starting a successful business compared to what it is which was colonial genocide, enclosure of the commons, and mass starvation as people were ripped from agricultural labor and cast into the factories and mines to work for feudal lords turned industrial capitalists.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree but in this context I'm literally telling them to read about it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was just summarizing for the people who are too lazy to go read anything and will just stop here

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago
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