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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 1083498" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Through the ages those with physical or technological superiority have dominated other groups. And while slavery is repugnant, keep in mind that you have to look at it in ways other than the brutality of American slavery. Take the Romans, pretty brutal themselves but their domination of other peoples resulted in hundreds of years of relative peace and prosperity. Paxa Roma. Catholics in Latin America allowed slaves to earn their freedom and even marry into their families. What ultimately ended slavery on a mass scale was technological advancement. If everything still required manual labor with no machines then you can bet we'd still have slavery. By the time Lincoln emancipated the slaves the South was trying to hang on to a system that was more about the right to dominate than an actual need for large groups of slaves. Machines were taking their place and, as was realized by forward thinking people, beyond the ethics it no longer made sense economically to feed, clothe, and house large numbers of people. This is the parallel with today. The rich and powerful are eliminating the need for many workers with technology, and are herding us into menial jobs where they can dominate us and make us dependent. This was the plight of the working man at the start of the 20th Century, labor pushed back and won many concessions, then the elite realized there were billions of people around the world who'd be happy to have anything and technology has made it possible to take those jobs to the poor in other countries. The pendulum has swung back to management, and more and more of us are left scrambling to take whatever we can get in the wake of the "New Normal". So yes, there has always been a leadership in every corner of the world that has sought to dominate the masses to their own benefit. Slavery was it's most brutal form, but then Communism, Japanese Imperalism, Fascism demonstrated recently that brutality comes in many forms. The Aztecs, Mayans, and Incas dominated their realms, the Comanches use to raid Mexico every Fall to kill and take slaves and livestock. The Mongols, the Huns, the list is endless and the end result was a conquered people dominated by another. We may have a much milder form going on now. Instead of a whole country or race or ethnic group we are being dominated in smaller groups by corporations. Luckily, and I hope it lasts, we have the right to quit. We also have the right to starve in the street so ultimately we will attach ourselves in servitude to another corporate hierarchy or stay content in the one we're in now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 1083498, member: 24302"] Through the ages those with physical or technological superiority have dominated other groups. And while slavery is repugnant, keep in mind that you have to look at it in ways other than the brutality of American slavery. Take the Romans, pretty brutal themselves but their domination of other peoples resulted in hundreds of years of relative peace and prosperity. Paxa Roma. Catholics in Latin America allowed slaves to earn their freedom and even marry into their families. What ultimately ended slavery on a mass scale was technological advancement. If everything still required manual labor with no machines then you can bet we'd still have slavery. By the time Lincoln emancipated the slaves the South was trying to hang on to a system that was more about the right to dominate than an actual need for large groups of slaves. Machines were taking their place and, as was realized by forward thinking people, beyond the ethics it no longer made sense economically to feed, clothe, and house large numbers of people. This is the parallel with today. The rich and powerful are eliminating the need for many workers with technology, and are herding us into menial jobs where they can dominate us and make us dependent. This was the plight of the working man at the start of the 20th Century, labor pushed back and won many concessions, then the elite realized there were billions of people around the world who'd be happy to have anything and technology has made it possible to take those jobs to the poor in other countries. The pendulum has swung back to management, and more and more of us are left scrambling to take whatever we can get in the wake of the "New Normal". So yes, there has always been a leadership in every corner of the world that has sought to dominate the masses to their own benefit. Slavery was it's most brutal form, but then Communism, Japanese Imperalism, Fascism demonstrated recently that brutality comes in many forms. The Aztecs, Mayans, and Incas dominated their realms, the Comanches use to raid Mexico every Fall to kill and take slaves and livestock. The Mongols, the Huns, the list is endless and the end result was a conquered people dominated by another. We may have a much milder form going on now. Instead of a whole country or race or ethnic group we are being dominated in smaller groups by corporations. Luckily, and I hope it lasts, we have the right to quit. We also have the right to starve in the street so ultimately we will attach ourselves in servitude to another corporate hierarchy or stay content in the one we're in now. [/QUOTE]
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