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2019-04-06 (discuss.online)
submitted 11 months ago by [M] to c/cyanideandhappiness@discuss.online
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[–] 7 points 11 months ago* (4 children)

What will Western billionaires do when the flow of poor brown people stops? They're dependent on them for cheap labour and to deflect blame onto.

They will bring back the slave trade. This time using latinos.

Edit: I'm not even remotely joking or being facetious.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (3 children)

    But why though? They will have robots by that time. The end game is just a small group of wealthy people living in a climate-isolated environment surrounded by a sea of automatons.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Robots cost a lot of money to make and can't look up in awe at your astounding wealth.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    And you can't be cruel to robots.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago*

    Sure you can. The but robots would not have any issue with that. And the cruelty is the point. Slave owners in the South didn't simply own slaves because it was economically a great system. By most accounts slave ownership the way it was done in America was far more costly than just hiring people at slave wages (which is still pretty bad but when splitting hairs...)

    No, they owned slaves because lording it over a person you can definitively (in your own mind) label as inferior makes you feel good.

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