@ryangrim is it your understanding that slavery and feudalism are capitalist systems?
@conncarroll think about it. You hire farm workers. Your neighbor doesn't pay them at all. Do you think you can hire yours cheaper?
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@ryangrim if you are a family farm in upstate New York, slave labor in South Carolina does not change what you pay your family for work -
@conncarroll You started:"we grew food for centuries w/o ag subsidies" & r now down to a farm in NY. Care to revise your sweeping assertion? -
@ryangrim and actually we started on crony capitalism. so, again, is it better when we have less or more of it? -
@conncarroll Let's go with less. But your point that for centuries capitalism functioned just fine without government is just not true
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@ryangrim I'll give you this, abolishing slavery would have raised price of tobacco and cotton temporarily as South shifted to paying wages.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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