These type of wealth disparities existing before capitalism. In ancient grand societies the wealth was controlled by a small elite almost always and class mobility was non-existent.
The issue isn’t capitalism, it’s just that the history of our specifies across various society tends to ebb and flow in various directions in response to historical events and contexts. Go read Piketty’s work on this.
Uh huh which is why he simply illustrated the point being made and why its flawed lmao
He’s responding to a meme criticizing this exact idea. So he’ll likely criticising that criticism and defending its position.
This is like 5th grade level analysis bro it’s not that complicated
But hey defend your guy. And the context is that you are defending that idea as well. Because why are you defending this and not every time someone reads into a comment? Likely because you have an issue with what he’s pointing out. Not like automatically but it pretty likely DOES mean that and that matters to people, which is why we concern ourselves with implications of things we say in the modern age, it reveals shit
Going to be that nerd.
These type of wealth disparities existing before capitalism. In ancient grand societies the wealth was controlled by a small elite almost always and class mobility was non-existent.
The issue isn’t capitalism, it’s just that the history of our specifies across various society tends to ebb and flow in various directions in response to historical events and contexts. Go read Piketty’s work on this.
Also, any non-“capitalist” nation that currently exists is likely filled with peasants working subhuman conditions to survive under despots.
“Bad things existed before, so we should not criticize them still existing today” is not a very strong argument.
Putting words into people’s mouths is a weaker argument yet.
Uh huh which is why he simply illustrated the point being made and why its flawed lmao
He’s responding to a meme criticizing this exact idea. So he’ll likely criticising that criticism and defending its position.
This is like 5th grade level analysis bro it’s not that complicated
But hey defend your guy. And the context is that you are defending that idea as well. Because why are you defending this and not every time someone reads into a comment? Likely because you have an issue with what he’s pointing out. Not like automatically but it pretty likely DOES mean that and that matters to people, which is why we concern ourselves with implications of things we say in the modern age, it reveals shit