Darkover
Angelic
- Jul 29, 2021
- 4,562
For most of human history the name of the game has been the wealthy rule over the poor. Human beings are a resource, they can be and are utilized like tools. The more resources available the easier your life becomes, pleasure is more accessible.
If the wealthy don't treat the conscious resources well enough, those resources rebel. If they rebel, the way of an easier life is gone. The trick they have learned is, keep the herd from rebelling. Bread and circuses to keep them entertained and laws to fear them into compliance.
The pen is mightier than the sword. Words are the "new" sword. If you can control a mind through the use of symbols, their bodies will walk to your tune. They become your resource. There is no need to physically harm someone nowadays, the fear of your comfort and safety being removed is enough to stop your shenanigans.
The only things truly changing are the languages used and the tools that enforce the language. Money is the new whip. The word slave changed to employee. The cage is more comfortable now, but nonetheless 1% of the population rules over 99%.
You know your a slave when you don't control access to food, water, housing, and other basic necessities. If you control someone's ability to live, you are their master.
The capitalists that privately own the fresh water sources, food producers/distributors, and your housing are your masters. They get to decide if you live or die. They can use this power to extort you and make you do things you wouldn't do otherwise. You are a capitalist slave.
What makes capitalism work is, if you're an able bodied young person, if you refuse to work you suffer a fair amount of agony. And it's because of that agony that this whole economic system works.
The working class has no choice but to sell ourselves to capitalists for wages. This is not a "consensual transaction." It is coercion, set up through centuries of violence that privatized all land, commodified basic human needs &
transformed us into cattle for a "labor market."
If the wealthy don't treat the conscious resources well enough, those resources rebel. If they rebel, the way of an easier life is gone. The trick they have learned is, keep the herd from rebelling. Bread and circuses to keep them entertained and laws to fear them into compliance.
The pen is mightier than the sword. Words are the "new" sword. If you can control a mind through the use of symbols, their bodies will walk to your tune. They become your resource. There is no need to physically harm someone nowadays, the fear of your comfort and safety being removed is enough to stop your shenanigans.
The only things truly changing are the languages used and the tools that enforce the language. Money is the new whip. The word slave changed to employee. The cage is more comfortable now, but nonetheless 1% of the population rules over 99%.
You know your a slave when you don't control access to food, water, housing, and other basic necessities. If you control someone's ability to live, you are their master.
The capitalists that privately own the fresh water sources, food producers/distributors, and your housing are your masters. They get to decide if you live or die. They can use this power to extort you and make you do things you wouldn't do otherwise. You are a capitalist slave.
What makes capitalism work is, if you're an able bodied young person, if you refuse to work you suffer a fair amount of agony. And it's because of that agony that this whole economic system works.
The working class has no choice but to sell ourselves to capitalists for wages. This is not a "consensual transaction." It is coercion, set up through centuries of violence that privatized all land, commodified basic human needs &
transformed us into cattle for a "labor market."
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