• JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Are you saying that since now only part of the world is starving, it was better in the medieval age when everyone was starving?

    • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      in the medieval age when everyone was starving?

      Mao has a great quote about how if you don’t investigate something, you have no right to speak. Basically “shut up you stupid fucker” and statements like this are what it was for.

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      That simply isn’t true. You’ve made some pretty broad claims about the middle aged already and putting them together it’s a pretty easy guess you don’t know jack shit about that time period. Cause so far it seems like you’ve gotten all of your information from pop culture.

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      2 months ago

      I’m a huge fan of arguments of the form "Are you saying [absurd nonsense that in no way resembles what they say said]?

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      2 months ago

      No one is currently being starved to death (or otherwise being deprived of being alive) because of capitalism

      Are you saying that since now only part of the world is starving, it was better in the medieval age when everyone was starving?

      https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Motte-and-bailey_argument

      Also, the nobility & clergy weren’t starving during feudalism, only the peasants during famines.

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        In every society (even animal) the leaders tend to have a better life than the rest. However, I would argue that also the nobility of the past was subject to all sorts of “inconveniences” that would be unthinkable today.

        Contextualising to the discussion, I find quite ridiculous to “forget” that Capitalism brought more prosperity than any system before it, or to focus on the exploitations of minorities as if they weren’t the norm for the majority in the past.