I think we can say with confidence that slaveowners were some of the most outrageous penny pinchers known to humankind. If they were paying extra for experienced labor, there was a real good reason.
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Three years. That's more than an associate's degree. And it's what it takes to get good enough at farm work to be worth real money. (Ideally for yourself as a free laborer, not for your powdered-wigged pimp).
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Replying to @SarahTaber_bww @SwiftOnSecurity
An associate degree takes fifteen years of education, not three. The first thirteen years aren’t at university, but are still necessary to get a degree. But they’re not (mostly) needed for a farm labourer.
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Are you purposefully missing the point or what?
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It’s ok, he’s (accidentally?) making the case for reproductive labor (mostly done by <guess who?>) being at the foundations of capitalism, then and now.
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Replying to @Ed_Baptist @SarahTaber_bww and
Reproductive labor? Do you mean the propagation of the species, or is that farming terminology?
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Replying to @FrankOfOrange @Ed_Baptist and
I see. So is the point that making humans is necessary for capitalism to function? Because that doesn't seem particularly insightful.
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Replying to @spearofsolomon @Ed_Baptist and
The next question to ask is, are the people performing that labor being fairly compensated for it? Does the capitalist system acknowledge its debt to the unpaid work of raising good, sane, pro-social people?
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Replying to @levity @Ed_Baptist and
> Does the capitalist system acknowledge its debt to Of course not. Capitalism is an economic system and should be practiced as such, not a spiritual system responsible for the totality of its members' lives. Mistaking it for a religion led us to this expectation.
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But who is doing the mistaking? Can I make the bill collector go away by telling him I chose to value raising children over earning money?
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Replying to @levity @Ed_Baptist and
Can you make your children's hunger go away by telling nature that you chose to value raising children over finding food?
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Replying to @spearofsolomon @Ed_Baptist and
Being able to feed your children is an important part of raising them :) If you’re saying that you can find food only by earning money, then you’re describing an economic system “responsible for the totality of its members’ lives”.
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