He spoke to the poor. There were no ultra impoverished. He spoke to hunger, not starvation outside of famine.
People in the ancient world often sold themselves into slavery to stay alive.
People don’t sell themselves into fucking slavery because they’re only moderately impoverished and fear just being a little bit hungry.
The idea that there was no extreme poverty in the ancient world is utterly bizarre and against everything we know about ancient societies and economies.
We don’t know if he had a home, he probably did, but just kinda abandoned it.
Yes, I have. As well as Marx, and Trotsky. You seem to have missed the part where Smith would tell you to stop cockgobbling capitalism when it has served its intended purpose by the mid 1800s and move on.
You uh, miss the majority of the fucking comment which challenges your initial absurd claim that I objected to?
People in the ancient world often sold themselves into slavery to stay alive.
People don’t sell themselves into fucking slavery because they’re only moderately impoverished and fear just being a little bit hungry.
The idea that there was no extreme poverty in the ancient world is utterly bizarre and against everything we know about ancient societies and economies.
You seem to have missed the part where Smith would tell you to stop cockgobbling capitalism when it has served its intended purpose by the mid 1800s and move on.
“Cockgobbling capitalism is when you point out that poverty, starvation, and homelessness predate capitalism, and that feudal and clientistic societies are the ones in the modern day which continue to experience mass starvation, not developed capitalist societies, whose cultivation of a proletariat creates an independent power base for organized workers to demand certain minimum protections and sets up the possibility of a socialist future”
I don’t care about the rest of your fantasies. People sell themselves into wage slavery or indentured servitude now.
I also don’t particularly care about what a work of mostly historical fiction from over 2000 to 5000 years ago says about how to live. They didn’t know shit about our world.
Capitalism is causing death today. It needs to be destroyed entirely, and replaced with democratically elected councils, not presidents and supreme leaders.
Listing the material conditions of historical societies, the historical societies we were discussing, the historical societies YOU brought up, is my ‘fantasies’??
People sell themselves into wage slavery or indentured servitude now.
… which is a sign of extreme poverty, correct??
What the fuck even is your argument here??
I also don’t particularly care about what a work of mostly historical fiction from over 2000 to 5000 years ago says about how to live. They didn’t know shit about our world.
You were the one who brought up the conditions of Jesus Christ as laid out in Biblical narrative in this conversation
Holy fucking shit.
Capitalism is causing death today. It needs to be destroyed entirely, and replaced with democratically elected councils, not presidents and supreme leaders.
… okay? What the fuck does that have to do with anything I’ve said?
An expletive, not an argument. Jesus fucking Christ.
I know you’re off your meds but do try to keep track.
Cute. What does it say about you that you’re unable to keep a coherent argument even in comparison to someone with ADHD off their meds?
You started by asking when capitalism has cause death outside of war
Fucking what.
Go ahead. Quote me saying that.
(Protip: you can’t, because you’ve done nothing but spew utter bullshit with no relation to reality from the start)
and have been going off on tangents ever since.
Your FIRST REPLY to me was a claim that extreme poverty, starvation, and homelessness did not predate capitalism, which I responded to by first claiming, and then demonstrating, that such a claim is utterly absurd and in complete contradiction to actual history facts.
What ‘tangent’ did I go off on in continuously disputing that despite your continued defense of that utter bullshit claim?
The study you cited is claiming capitalism directly starves 9 million people a year because starvation did not exist before capitalism - a claim which is demonstrably untrue.
… when was the last time capitalism led to mass starvation and death? Every famine I’m aware of since 1950 has been the cause of either war, recurring environmental issues that have resulted in famines across multiple economic systems, or government mismanagement.
I asked when the last time was that capitalism led to mass starvation and death, and, in line with that, pointed out that no famines since at least 1950 have been caused by capitalism, pointing out the mechanisms that have caused every major famine since. Sorry that your literacy is as poor as your reasoning?
Wacky declarations are no replacement for actual historical context and facts.
I’m sorry, just to be clear - are you disputing that people in the ancient world often sold themselves into slavery to avoid starvation?
Do you want me to start citing legal codes and chroniclers? Because I can. But I want to make sure that when you start pissing about playing dumb that everyone sees you got what you fucking asked for.
People in the ancient world often sold themselves into slavery to stay alive.
People don’t sell themselves into fucking slavery because they’re only moderately impoverished and fear just being a little bit hungry.
The idea that there was no extreme poverty in the ancient world is utterly bizarre and against everything we know about ancient societies and economies.
“he probably did”
Jesus fucking Christ.
I have read Adam Smith, ffs. Have you?
Yes, I have. As well as Marx, and Trotsky. You seem to have missed the part where Smith would tell you to stop cockgobbling capitalism when it has served its intended purpose by the mid 1800s and move on.
You uh, miss the majority of the fucking comment which challenges your initial absurd claim that I objected to?
“Cockgobbling capitalism is when you point out that poverty, starvation, and homelessness predate capitalism, and that feudal and clientistic societies are the ones in the modern day which continue to experience mass starvation, not developed capitalist societies, whose cultivation of a proletariat creates an independent power base for organized workers to demand certain minimum protections and sets up the possibility of a socialist future”
I don’t care about the rest of your fantasies. People sell themselves into wage slavery or indentured servitude now.
I also don’t particularly care about what a work of mostly historical fiction from over 2000 to 5000 years ago says about how to live. They didn’t know shit about our world.
Capitalism is causing death today. It needs to be destroyed entirely, and replaced with democratically elected councils, not presidents and supreme leaders.
Fucking what??
Listing the material conditions of historical societies, the historical societies we were discussing, the historical societies YOU brought up, is my ‘fantasies’??
… which is a sign of extreme poverty, correct??
What the fuck even is your argument here??
You were the one who brought up the conditions of Jesus Christ as laid out in Biblical narrative in this conversation
Holy fucking shit.
… okay? What the fuck does that have to do with anything I’ve said?
You brought up Christ before I responded to that. I know you’re off your meds but do try to keep track.
You started by asking when capitalism has cause death outside of war and have been going off on tangents ever since.
An expletive, not an argument. Jesus fucking Christ.
Cute. What does it say about you that you’re unable to keep a coherent argument even in comparison to someone with ADHD off their meds?
Fucking what.
Go ahead. Quote me saying that.
(Protip: you can’t, because you’ve done nothing but spew utter bullshit with no relation to reality from the start)
Your FIRST REPLY to me was a claim that extreme poverty, starvation, and homelessness did not predate capitalism, which I responded to by first claiming, and then demonstrating, that such a claim is utterly absurd and in complete contradiction to actual history facts.
What ‘tangent’ did I go off on in continuously disputing that despite your continued defense of that utter bullshit claim?
Oh, and my first reply was a study that shows that capitalism directly starves 9 million people a year.
The study you cited is claiming capitalism directly starves 9 million people a year because starvation did not exist before capitalism - a claim which is demonstrably untrue.
You were saying?
I asked when the last time was that capitalism led to mass starvation and death, and, in line with that, pointed out that no famines since at least 1950 have been caused by capitalism, pointing out the mechanisms that have caused every major famine since. Sorry that your literacy is as poor as your reasoning?
Wacky declarations are no replacement for actual historical context and facts.
I’m sorry, just to be clear - are you disputing that people in the ancient world often sold themselves into slavery to avoid starvation?
Do you want me to start citing legal codes and chroniclers? Because I can. But I want to make sure that when you start pissing about playing dumb that everyone sees you got what you fucking asked for.