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[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

What single contributing factor would you say carries the most weight? Throughout history there has been inequality, but never like this. Even medieval peasants worked less than modern Americans.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I think it’s our survival instinct to hoard. I don’t think we’ve evolved to live in such a massive civilization. We weren’t meant to live this way.

I do think this level of equality would exist in older times if they knew they could get away with it.

However the scale at which we live (the global economy) is so much larger that it’s easier for them to extract and hoard wealth. In older times our communities were much smaller. The consequences for fucking around were a lot higher because it was easier for the poors to hold them accountable.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, the medieval worker put in much longer work hours, which is interesting

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Look at the column for medival worker vs. peasant

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You cherry pick data to fit your narrative

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What narrative? This is the first time I see that link

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The commentor you're talking to has a bad tendency to change his/her original comment multiple times and then tries to gaslight people. Don't take the chud serious.