Stefan MolyneuxVerified account

The exact opposite happened in South Africa. The increased voting power was used to strip whites of wealth, opportunity, and human rights.

Who stripped whom first?

Boers purchased their lands from the tribes who controlled it at that time. SA is now looking to give the land to people who have never had ancestral claims to the lands.

Hehe. The opposite transpired in sunny South Africa.

Lol. If Africa had the industrial revolution first, there would have been white slavery.

If they had, there would be no need for slaves. The automation industrialization brings makes slavery economically problematic to a post agrarian society.

Yep. And the other issue is that slave labor drives wages down, so in an industrialized economy slaves would displace a prospective middle class from the workforce.

If you take into account cradle to grave food, shelter, clothing etc. whether the slave can work or whether there is work for them, the cost of the labor is staggering. One of the reasons the big planters were constantly broke. "Cotton Kingdom"

Written about 10 years before the war by the great abolishonist Olmsted, it is cost/benefit analysis intended to convince planters they would do better with underpaid white day labor as was the northern practice. Eye opening.

Well, all affirmative action laws in South Africa favor the Black majority.... after nearly a quarter of a century of this, with little results, government is resorting to simply stripping assets from the minority to favor the majority.

#JanVanRiebeeck thought Affirmative Action was

#JanVanRiebeeck says affirmative action killed the economy

#JanVanRiebeeck could fix the economy.

#JanVanRiebeeck would be turning in his grave if he knew what has happened to the country

#JanVanRiebeeck is not dead.