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Re:The Masterless People: Pirates, Maroons, and the Struggle... by kiliantics on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @03:02PM (#18348387)
Lots of the constraints of life are not voluntary though, but have been forced upon you by those with more power. You may need a payday loan because your boss wouldn't give you enough hours and your car broke down. Those are consequences of an artificial scarcity that is forced upon us and which enables the few to profit more from us. In the past it took the form of debt peonage.
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Re:The Masterless People: Pirates, Maroons, and the Struggle... by pitaj on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @05:12PM (#18349318)
Those constraints are derivatives of the fundamental facts of nature. You are not forced by your boss to work, you are forced by nature to work for the necessities of life.
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Re:The Masterless People: Pirates, Maroons, and the Struggle... by kiliantics on Thursday November 01, 2018 @09:58AM (#18353887)
The constraints of nature are not as strict as those of society. Food literally grows on trees but now you have to pay for it. It's estimated that our ancestors worked about 15 hour weeks before the agrarian revolution.
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