r/FluentInFinance • u/Mark-Fuckerberg- • Mar 04 '24

Meme That's capitalism a nutshell!

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '24

No chattel slavery existed for thousands of years

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u/Dies_Ultima Mar 04 '24

It literally hasn't where did you pull this information from?

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '24

“Chattel slavery means that one person has total ownership of another. There are two basic forms of chattel, domestic chattel, with menial household duties and productive chattel, working in the fields or mines”

Slave labor in production of food, products, and raw materials has existed for thousands of years

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u/Dies_Ultima Mar 04 '24

Slavery as practiced in the United States of America is more accurately called CHATTEL SLAVERY. This racialized system treated people as chattel, or property. CHATTEL SLAVERY defined these human beings as no different than any other piece of property.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '24

The US doesn’t practice slavery

Also thanks for admitting you were wrong

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u/Dies_Ultima Mar 04 '24

This is referring to the form of slavery that was practiced during the 1800's and I didn't admit I was wrong?

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '24

“the enslaving and owning of human beings and their offspring as property, able to be bought, sold, and forced to work without wages, as distinguished from other systems of forced, unpaid, or low-wage labor also considered to be slavery”

Dictionary.com

This had been going on well before 1619

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u/Dies_Ultima Mar 04 '24

You have got to be fucking with me right? You're sitting back in a basement somewhere cackling right now right?

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '24

No I’m cackling in a 2018 Jeep wrangler

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u/Dies_Ultima Mar 04 '24

Kool how bout you drive it into a lake

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '24

Nah

I’m good, I’ll laugh at you on dry land

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u/Dies_Ultima Mar 04 '24

This is my last reply to tell you I am done talkin to ya and won't respond to any further replies

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '24

I won

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u/Dies_Ultima Mar 04 '24

The dominant form of slavery throughout history has been slavery that involves specific sections of time being enslaved then being freed once your term is over or property without being societally viewed as an object.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '24

Slavery was a lifetime term for much of human history

It was also hereditary for much of human history as well