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0 pointsstcredzero7y ago0 comments

In other words, anyone could build a prosperous society on the back of slaves if they have some natural resources to exploit.

But that ceases to be competitive past a certain level of technology and value-add. Even slaves in the American South got paid extra for work requiring exceptional skill and attention to detail. It turns out you can't whip people into producing quality past a very basic level.

The legacy of that is still what drives a lot of the economy in the US even today.

No. That's a propaganda fiction used by the Far Left to bring down the current order.

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mnm17y ago· 3 in thread

Are you saying that black people aren't suffering today due to slavery and Jim Crow? How do you explain that the median white household wealth is sixteen times that of black households? Or is that a leftist conspiracy also? https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2015/03/26/the-racial...

vixen997y ago

You should check a general reference on slavery across the world (including slavery of Europeans during the late middle ages). There seems to be not a single country whose citizens have not enslaved someone or other at sometime throughout history. I am not as rich as Jeff Bezos or indeed hundreds of thousands of other folk. Now how can you explain that? Answer to your question: yes, a leftist conspiracy.

If you really want some explanations for the lower relative wealth of black households, try reading Thomas Sowell.

https://tsowell.com/

bsanr7y ago

Coincidentally, most countries that have had a historically-disadvantaged population still see large socioeconomic disparities between they and the average, even when the populations concerned are racially homogeneous collectivists with a conservative political bent (looking at you, Japan).

Coincidentally, of course. (OR, The phrase "opportunity hoarding" comes to mind.)

stcredzeroOP7y ago

Are you saying that black people aren't suffering today due to slavery and Jim Crow?

No to the first. The causation from slavery doesn't reach the current day. There were tremendous gains in literacy rates and per capita wealth of black people after slavery. Then there were later reversals in literacy rates and rates of out of wedlock births which date to the mid 20th century.

https://www.creators.com/read/thomas-sowell/11/14/a-legacy-o...

"If we wanted to be serious about evidence, we might compare where blacks stood a hundred years after the end of slavery with where they stood after 30 years of the liberal welfare state. In other words, we could compare hard evidence on "the legacy of slavery" with hard evidence on the legacy of liberals."

As for Jim Crow, some really bad things happened under that, it's true. Those laws were overturned by the civil rights movement.

Incidentally, my family name indicates that my ancestors were also essentially slaves. That form of slavery persisted into the 1800's. No one in my family talks about suffering as a result of that. The notion would just be seen as silly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Korea#History

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